'SDL2/SDL.h' file not found when trying to run script on MacOS vsCode

I'm trying to get SDL2 to work inside VScode so I can start learning it. I don't really know how VSCode launch, tasks, property json etc works, and I haven't found much online for how to set up SDL2 in VScode on mac precisely, so I had to use chatgpt. Big shocker, it doesn't work properly and I can't get it to fix the problem, and trying to include sdl2.h in any script shows the error "'SDL2/SDL.h' file not found" error in the editor. I tried using this repo(https://github.com/mahanmi/SDL2-on-mac/) to pre-set it up, but the exact same issue occurs with that as well. My test script, c_cpp_properties.json, launch.json, and tasks.json are below:

c_cpp_properties.json:

{ "version": 4, "configurations": [ { "name": "macOS-Clang", "includePath": [ "${workspaceFolder}/**", "/opt/homebrew/include" ], "browse": { "path": [ "${workspaceFolder}/**", "/opt/homebrew/include" ], "limitSymbolsToIncludedHeaders": true }, "defines": [], "macFrameworkPath": [ "/System/Library/Frameworks", "/Library/Frameworks" ], "compilerPath": "/usr/bin/clang++", "cStandard": "c17", "cppStandard": "c++20", "intelliSenseMode": "macos-clang-arm64" } ] }

launch.json

{ "version": "0.2.0", "configurations": [ { "name": "(lldb) Launch SDL2", "type": "cppdbg", "request": "launch", "program": "${fileDirname}/${fileBasenameNoExtension}", "args": [], "stopAtEntry": false, "cwd": "${fileDirname}", "environment": [ { "name": "DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH", "value": "/opt/homebrew/lib" } ], "externalConsole": true, "MIMode": "lldb" } ] }

tasks.json

{ "version": "2.0.0", "tasks": [ { "label": "Build with SDL2", "type": "shell", "command": "/bin/zsh", "args": [ "-c", "clang++ -std=gnu++20 -Wall -Wextra -Wpedantic -g \"${file}\" $(sdl2-config --cflags --libs) -o \"${fileDirname}/${fileBasenameNoExtension}\"" ], "options": { "cwd": "${fileDirname}" }, "problemMatcher": [ "$gcc" ], "group": { "kind": "build", "isDefault": false } }, { "type": "cppbuild", "label": "C/C++: clang++ build active file", "command": "/usr/bin/clang++", "args": [ "-fcolor-diagnostics", "-fansi-escape-codes", "-g", "${file}", "-o", "${fileDirname}/${fileBasenameNoExtension}" ], "options": { "cwd": "${fileDirname}" }, "problemMatcher": [ "$gcc" ], "group": { "kind": "build", "isDefault": true }, "detail": "Task generated by Debugger." } ] }

and the test script I was using(with the error in the include):

#include <SDL2/SDL.h> #include <iostream> int main() { if (SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_VIDEO) != 0) { std::cerr << "SDL_Init Error: " << SDL_GetError() << "\n"; return 1; } SDL_Quit(); std::cout << "SDL2 initialized successfully\n"; return 0; }

SDL2 was installed with homebrew and it should be in it's usual path for MacOS.