diff --git a/scconfig/src/gui/Makefile.plugin b/scconfig/src/gui/Makefile.plugin
index f8e1a0be..f9c07e0a 100644
--- a/scconfig/src/gui/Makefile.plugin
+++ b/scconfig/src/gui/Makefile.plugin
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ GUI_OBJS = \
   $(BIN)/gui/find_cairo.o \
   $(BIN)/gui/find_misc.o \
   $(BIN)/gui/find_gl.o \
+  $(BIN)/gui/find_sdl2.o \
   $(BIN)/gui/gui.o
 
 
diff --git a/scconfig/src/gui/gui.c b/scconfig/src/gui/gui.c
index 385a6d8e..300c371a 100644
--- a/scconfig/src/gui/gui.c
+++ b/scconfig/src/gui/gui.c
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 #include "find_cairo.h"
 #include "find_misc.h"
 #include "find_gl.h"
+#include "find_sdl2.h"
 
 void deps_gui_init()
 {
@@ -47,4 +48,5 @@ void deps_gui_init()
 	dep_add("libs/gui/glut/*",              find_glut);
 	dep_add("libs/gui/wgl/*",               find_gui_wgl);
 	dep_add("libs/gui/glfw/*",              find_glfw);
+	dep_add("libs/gui/sdl2/*",              find_sdl2);
 }
diff --git a/src/spice.awk b/src/spice.awk
index 257e3caa..f25ced12 100755
--- a/src/spice.awk
+++ b/src/spice.awk
@@ -185,6 +185,10 @@ function process(        i,j, iprefix, saveinstr, savetype, saveanalysis)
  # dxm6[0] 0 HDD dnwell area='(50u + 73u)*(10u + 32u)' pj='2*(50u +73u)+2*(10u +32u)' 
  #20151027 do this for all fields
  for(i=1; i<=NF;i++) {
+   
+   if($i ~/^##[a-zA-Z_]+/) {
+     sub(/^##/, "", $i)
+   } else 
    if($i ~/^#[a-zA-Z_0-9]+#[a-zA-Z_]+/) {
      iprefix=$i
      sub(/^#/,"",iprefix)