I used 32 bit PCLinuxOS with Mate
and I can not compile hand and witth source from Mageia
http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,124998.0.html
I had libirrlicht-devel and irrlicht-devel
I not tested only on 64 bit system but in the link slick50 says working.
Compiling on other distributions 32bit works ?
This version dependencies I used
http://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/pclinuxos/pclinuxos/srpms/SRPMS.pclos/