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Introduction to SDL with Visual Studio
The easiest way to use SDL is to include it as a subproject in your project.
We'll start by creating a simple project to build and run hello.c

Get a copy of the SDL source, you can clone the repo, or download the "Source Code" asset from the latest release.
If you've downloaded a release, make sure to extract the contents somewhere you can find it.
Create a new project in Visual Studio, using the C++ Empty Project template
Add hello.c to the Source Files
Right click the solution, select add an existing project, navigate to VisualC/SDL from within the source you cloned or downloaded above and add SDL.vcxproj
Select your main project and go to Project -> Add -> Reference and select SDL3
Select your main project and go to Project -> Properties, set the filter at the top to "All Configurations" and "All Platforms", select C/C++ -> General and add the SDL include directory to "Additional Include Directories"
Build and run!

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