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Downloading the SDL library

We'll begin the setup by downloading the essential libraries. Let's first download the SDL library by following these steps:

Visit http://libsdl.org/index.php, go to Download, and click on the latest version; at the time of writing this book, SDL 2.0 was the latest version.
Once you have clicked on the latest version, you may either want to download the development libraries or the runtime libraries. For this project, it is recommended that you download Development Libraries.
We'll go for the Visual C++ one, which is SDL2-devel-2.0.8-VC.zip. Click on the filename and download it.
Once you've downloaded the file, unzip it and put it in the SDL folder inside the OpenGL folder that we created in previous sections. ...

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