New to SDL & can't seem to find what I'm looking for.

SDL Development
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Hello,

I discovered SDL today, and would like to use it in a C project I am working on. However, I have no clue as to how to use SDL, and any information that I have found online has gone right over my head. Does SDL have an installer for Windows? If it does I can’t seem to find it anywhere. I found a GitHub page with different zips that can be downloaded but none of the files I thought were for windows contained an executable file. I did find some information about SDL being installed on the C drive but I cannot find it anywhere.

Any answers would be greatly appreciated, and I apologise in advance if I have posted this in the wrong place, feel free to move it if so.

Thanks in advance!

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It doesn’t need an installer, simply extract the file(s) you need from the relevant zip(s) to your project. As a minimum you will need the DLL (sdl2.dll or sdl3.dll depending on the version you want to use) and probably some header files. You may find the Lazy Foo’ Tutorials helpful.

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I checked out that tutorial and there seems to be a lot of really good information in there. Hopefully now I can set it up instead of always being told “no such file or directory” when I try to compile. I have been trying to get this working for 2 days now and it’s starting to take its toll.

Thank you for the information!

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what is your IDE/text editor? what compiler are you using? how do you run your build? where? have you ever coded a multi-file project?

let me tell you from personal experience. configuring an IDE such as Visual Studio is a huge PITA, while MSYS2 + pkgconf is a godsend bliss.