Help with setting up SDL2 to create a window in C from a video tutorial I was following.

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  • SDL

    Simple Directmedia Layer

    For the SDL2 library I used this link: https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/releases/tag/release-2.26.5 and downloaded 'SDL2-devel-2.26.5-VC.zip'

  • SDL_mixer

    An audio mixer that supports various file formats for Simple Directmedia Layer.

    For the SDL2 mixer library, I used: https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL_mixer/releases/tag/release-2.6.3 and downloaded SDL2_mixer-devel-2.6.3-VC.zip

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  • freetype-windows-binaries

    Windows binaries of FreeType

    For free type I downloaded https://github.com/ubawurinna/freetype-windows-binaries/releases/tag/v2.13.0 'source (zip)'

  • TestGame

    Here's a link to a github repository with the bash and main.c file I used: https://github.com/EricPhamTheRad/TestGame

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