SFML D bindings: libsfml-system.so.2.5: cannot open shared object file: - linker

Question

I recently did a fresh install of CSFML and I am getting this errors when running my program:
object.Exception#source/app.d(38): Fatal error(s) encountered whilst calling `loadSFML()` function:
["Error: libcsfml-system.so, Message: libsfml-system.so.2.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory",
"Error: libcsfml-system.so.2, Message: libcsfml-system.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory",
"Error: libcsfml-system.so.2.0, Message: libcsfml-system.so.2.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"]
I am using SFML D bindings (https://github.com/BindBC/bindbc-sfml):
void loadDyn() {
if (!loadSFML()) {
string[] messages;
foreach (const(ErrorInfo) err; errors) {
string errorStr = to!string(err.error);
string messageStr = to!string(err.message);
messages ~= format("Error: %s, Message: %s", errorStr, messageStr);
}
throw new Exception(format("Fatal error(s) encountered whilst calling `loadSFML()` function: %s", messages));
}
}
void main() {
loadDyn();
sfRenderWindow* renderWindow = sfRenderWindow_create(sfVideoMode(500, 500), "Snake Smooth Dynamics", sfWindowStyle.sfDefaultStyle, null);
sfEvent event;
while (renderWindow.sfRenderWindow_isOpen()) {
while (renderWindow.sfRenderWindow_pollEvent(&event)) {
if (event.type == sfEventType.sfEvtClosed) {
renderWindow.sfRenderWindow_close();
}
}
renderWindow.sfRenderWindow_clear(sfYellow);
renderWindow.sfRenderWindow_drawSprite(snakeHeadSprite, null);
renderWindow.sfRenderWindow_display();
}
}
Things I've tried:
I found someone with a similar question: Linux SFML - Cannot Open Shared Object File, tried out some answers but to no avail
I tried to sudo apt purge every CSFML dependency (graphics, audo, etc) and reinstall each component (csfml-audio, csfml-graphics) manually etc, to no avail.
I tried to run sudo ldconfig... didn't work
As a last ditch effort I tried to manually move the shared object files to the /usr/local/lib directory (to try and perhaps trick the compiler to run the program?) but to no avail.
I tried to run on a new VM and still didn't work
I tried to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable
The amount of layers I depend on make it impossible to find where the bug is from, there are a lot of separate things going on and it's very multilayered, I don't know where the issue is specifically coming from as it used to work just fine I ran the exact same commands to install CSFML previously, now when I do it it just refuses to run.
The weird thing is when I ran a brand new virtual machine, installed those packages, still same issue.
I am running Linux Mint 21.1, Ubuntu based. Relatively new PC.