Installing SDL on Windows XP - SmartSpaceWikiq Installing SDL on Windows XP


1. First download the last version of SDL 1.2 Development Libraries for Win32. 
You can find it here : http://www.libsdl.org/download-1.2.php
The name of the file to download is "SDL-devel-1.2.11-VC6.zip" for the version 1.2.11 of SDL.


2. Uncompress the SDL archive into C:\, you will obtain the C:\SDL-1.2.11 
directory for the version 1.2.11 of SDL. This directory will be referred to as 
SDL_ROOT in the following steps -- so SDL_ROOT\lib would be C:\SDL-1.2.11\lib


3. On the Desktop, right click on "My Computer" then click on "Properties". Go 
to the "Advanced" tab and click on the "Environment Variables" button. Create a 
new "System variable" :


Variable name : SDL_ROOT
Variable value : C:\SDL-1.2.11


Then edit the "Path" variable and add at the end :
;%SDL_ROOT%\lib 
