How to install SDL on Windows 8.1 and to connect it to Visual Studio Community 2013

Question

I need to install SDL and apply it to my Visual Studio if possible. So far, I have downloaded the Source Code file, Runtime Binaries (Windows x64 AND Visual C++ SDL Development Libraries.

What do I do after this? The download files are just sitting my computer. Sorry, I am quite new to all this.

Answer 1

You can use C/C++ libraries like SDL2 in Visual Studio by adding include folder containing header files, and lib which contains library files, in your project settings. There is a visual tutorial here:

http://www.willusher.io/sdl2%20tutorials/2013/08/15/lesson-0-visual-studio/