sdl-minimal

This is a minimal example on how to use SDL2.

Recommanded setup on Windows if you don't have Visual Studio (e.g. you only have Visual Studio Code)

1. Use the following instructions. It boils down to:
   • Installing MSYS2
   • Installing the MinGW-w64 toolchain using pacman -S --needed base-devel mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-toolchain
   • Adding the path to gcc.exe to the system PATH variable. Likely you'd want to modify it from Environment variables editor in Windows Settings, so that it points to C:\msys64\ucrt64\bin
2. Download the libSDL2 development package for MinGW from here.
   • E.g., use SDL2-devel-2.30.1-mingw.zip
3. Install CMake — any version later than 3.7 is OK.
4. Make a "SDK" directory, either in a "develop" subfolder in your user directory (e.g. C:\Users\«USERNAME»\develop\SDK) or in C:\
5. Unarchive the SDL2-devel there, e.g. so that CMake can see C:\Users\«USERNAME»\develop\SDK\SDL2-2.30.1\cmake

To compile sdl-minimal manually:

1. Create a "build" directory: mkdir build
2. Change into it: cd build
3. Run CMake, targeting MinGW: cmake -G "MinGW Makefiles" ..
4. Run make to build your code

To run it:

1. Copy SDL2.dll from SDL2\x86_64-w64-mingw32\bin\ to your "build" directory
2. You're all set - run sdl-minimal.exe