Starting with SDL on windows, worried about system

SDL Development
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I’ve started learning C++ and decided the best way to do that is to write some
games. As such, due to my previous experience with Perl, I knew about SDL, and
decided to use it. My problem is this site:
http://www.libsdl.org/intro/whatplatforms.html
It says there are two versions of SDL for windows, one of which is safe, the
other isn’t. My problem is there is only one version of the dll and development
files. Could someone please clarify what this statement means?

Thanks

Joel

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I’ve started learning C++ and decided the best way to do that is to write some
games. As such, due to my previous experience with Perl, I knew about SDL, and
decided to use it. My problem is this site:
http://www.libsdl.org/intro/whatplatforms.html
It says there are two versions of SDL for windows, one of which is safe, the
other isn’t. My problem is there is only one version of the dll and development
files. Could someone please clarify what this statement means?

This is an old statement. Right now the latest available version of SDL
is 1.2, and can be used safely.

See ya,
-Sam Lantinga, Software Engineer, Blizzard Entertainment