CMake Config is Found, but I Cannot Link the Libraries: SDL2_image

I am trying to link against SDL2_image. When I installed sdl2_image, my system was provided with a:

/usr/lib/cmake/SDL2_image/sdl2_iamge-config.cmake

I am able to verify that my CMakeLists.txt does indeed find this config, however, I cannot seem to use the _INCLUDE_DIRS or _LIBRARIES variable as I normally would.

Here is an example of my config:

find_package(SDL2 REQUIRED)
find_package(SDL2_image REQUIRED)
include_directories(${SDL2_INCLUDE_DIRS} ${SDL2_image_INCLUDE_DIRS})

add_executable(${PROJECT_NAME} ${SRCS})
target_link_libraries(${PROJECT_NAME} ${SDL2_LIBRARIES} ${SDL2_image_LIBRARIES})

When I try to build the program, I am informed that it cannot find the SDL2_image references.

Can someone help point out what I am hoping is a super stupid and trivial mistake?

Here is the entire sdl2_image-config.cmake for reference:

# sdl2_image cmake project-config input for ./configure scripts
include(FeatureSummary)
set_package_properties(SDL2_image PROPERTIES
    URL "https://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_image/"
    DESCRIPTION "SDL_image is an image file loading library"
)

set(SDL2_image_FOUND TRUE)

set(SDL2IMAGE_AVIF  1)
set(SDL2IMAGE_BMP   1)
set(SDL2IMAGE_GIF   1)
set(SDL2IMAGE_JPG   1)
set(SDL2IMAGE_JXL   1)
set(SDL2IMAGE_LBM   1)
set(SDL2IMAGE_PCX   1)
set(SDL2IMAGE_PNG   1)
set(SDL2IMAGE_PNM   1)
set(SDL2IMAGE_QOI   1)
set(SDL2IMAGE_SVG   1)
set(SDL2IMAGE_TGA   1)
set(SDL2IMAGE_TIF   1)
set(SDL2IMAGE_XCF   1)
set(SDL2IMAGE_XPM   1)
set(SDL2IMAGE_XV    1)
set(SDL2IMAGE_WEBP  1)

set(SDL2IMAGE_JPG_SAVE 1)
set(SDL2IMAGE_PNG_SAVE 1)

set(SDL2IMAGE_VENDORED  FALSE)

set(SDL2IMAGE_BACKEND_IMAGEIO   0)
set(SDL2IMAGE_BACKEND_STB       0)
set(SDL2IMAGE_BACKEND_WIC       0)

get_filename_component(prefix "${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}../../../.." ABSOLUTE)
set(exec_prefix "${prefix}")
set(bindir "${exec_prefix}/bin")
set(includedir "${prefix}/include")
set(libdir "${exec_prefix}/lib")
set(_sdl2image_extra_static_libraries "-lpng16 -lz  -ljxl -ljpeg  -ltiff  -lwebp   -ljxl ")
string(STRIP "${_sdl2image_extra_static_libraries}" _sdl2image_extra_static_libraries)

set(_sdl2image_bindir   "${bindir}")
set(_sdl2image_libdir   "${libdir}")
set(_sdl2image_incdir   "${includedir}/SDL2")

# Convert _sdl2image_extra_static_libraries to list and keep only libraries
string(REGEX MATCHALL "(-[lm]([-a-zA-Z0-9._]+))|(-Wl,[^ ]*framework[^ ]*)" _sdl2image_extra_static_libraries "${_sdl2image_extra_static_libraries}")
string(REGEX REPLACE "^-l" "" _sdl2image_extra_static_libraries "${_sdl2image_extra_static_libraries}")
string(REGEX REPLACE ";-l" ";" _sdl2image_extra_static_libraries "${_sdl2image_extra_static_libraries}")

unset(prefix)
unset(exec_prefix)
unset(bindir)
unset(includedir)
unset(libdir)

include(CMakeFindDependencyMacro)

if(NOT TARGET SDL2_image::SDL2_image)
    add_library(SDL2_image::SDL2_image SHARED IMPORTED)
    set_target_properties(SDL2_image::SDL2_image
        PROPERTIES
            INTERFACE_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES "${_sdl2image_incdir}"
            COMPATIBLE_INTERFACE_BOOL "SDL2_SHARED"
            INTERFACE_SDL2_SHARED "ON"
    )
    if(WIN32)
        set_target_properties(SDL2_image::SDL2_image
            PROPERTIES
                IMPORTED_LOCATION "${_sdl2image_bindir}/SDL2_image.dll"
                IMPORTED_IMPLIB "${_sdl2image_libdir}/${CMAKE_STATIC_LIBRARY_PREFIX}SDL2_image.dll${CMAKE_STATIC_LIBRARY_SUFFIX}"
        )
    else()
        set_target_properties(SDL2_image::SDL2_image
            PROPERTIES
                IMPORTED_LOCATION "${_sdl2image_libdir}/${CMAKE_SHARED_LIBRARY_PREFIX}SDL2_image${CMAKE_SHARED_LIBRARY_SUFFIX}"
        )
    endif()
endif()

if(NOT TARGET SDL2_image::SDL2_image-static)
    add_library(SDL2_image::SDL2_image-static STATIC IMPORTED)

    set_target_properties(SDL2_image::SDL2_image-static
        PROPERTIES
            INTERFACE_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES "${_sdl2image_incdir}"
            IMPORTED_LOCATION "${_sdl2image_libdir}/${CMAKE_STATIC_LIBRARY_PREFIX}SDL2_image${CMAKE_STATIC_LIBRARY_SUFFIX}"
            INTERFACE_LINK_LIBRARIES "${_sdl2image_extra_static_libraries}"
    )
endif()

unset(_sdl2image_extra_static_libraries)
unset(_sdl2image_bindir)
unset(_sdl2image_libdir)
unset(_sdl2image_incdir)

>Solution :

Instead of trying to link with variables (from CMake 2 era) try linking against the imported target (CMake 3 era)

find_package(SDL2 REQUIRED)
find_package(SDL2_image REQUIRED)
    
add_executable(yourexec file-a.cpp file-b.cpp file-c.cpp)

# Does both linking and headers
target_link_libraries(yourexec PRIVATE SDL2::SDL2 SDL2_image::SDL2_image)