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Original post by Kylotan
Gaiiden; filling the Windows directory with DLLs can lead to versioning problems (ie. your software breaks when someone else installs a 'newer' DLL that doesn't work entirely the same way) and also incidentally leads to marginal performance hits due to the number of entries in the directory.

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#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string>
#include <vector>
#include <time.h>

#include <SDL.h>   // All SDL App's need this

#include <SDL_TTF.h> // It's our new buddy!!


int main( int argc, char* argv[] ) {
   /* Initialize defaults, Video and Audio */
   if( SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_VIDEO)==(-1) ) { 
      printf("Could not initialize SDL: %s.\n", SDL_GetError());
      exit(-1);
   }

   /* Set up the video */
   SDL_Surface *screen;
   int WINWIDTH = 640, WINHEIGHT = 480, BPP = 32;
   screen = SDL_SetVideoMode( WINWIDTH,WINHEIGHT, BPP, SDL_SWSURFACE );
   if( screen == NULL ) {
        fprintf(stderr, "Couldn't set %ix%ix%i video mode: %s\n", WINWIDTH,WINHEIGHT,BPP, SDL_GetError());
        exit(1);
   }
   atexit(SDL_Quit);
   SDL_ShowCursor( SDL_DISABLE ); // The cursor is ugly :)


   /* Set up the SDL_TTF */
   TTF_Init();
      atexit(TTF_Quit);
   /* TTF_Init() is like SDL_Init(), but with no parameters.  Basically, it initializes
      SDL_TTF.  There's really not much to it.  Remember, when the program ends, we have
      to call TTF_Quit().  atexit(TTF_Quit) ensures that when we call exit(), the
      program calls TTF_Quit() for us. */
   

TTF_Font *fntCourier = TTF_OpenFont( "Fonts\\cour.ttf", 12 );

SDL_Color clrFg = {0,0,255,0};  // Blue ("Fg" is foreground)

SDL_Surface *sText = TTF_RenderText_Solid( fntCourier, "Courier 12", clrFg );

   SDL_Rect rcDest = {0,0,0,0};
   SDL_BlitSurface( sText,NULL, screen,&rcDest );

SDL_FreeSurface( sText );


TTF_CloseFont( fntCourier );
exit(0);
}

bool quit = false;
while( !quit ) {
   SDL_Event event;
   if( SDL_PollEvent( &event ) ) {
       switch( event.type ) {
          case SDL_KEYDOWN: {
             int key = event.key.keysym.sym;
             if( key == SDLK_ESCAPE ) {
                quit = true;
             }
             break;
          }
       }
   }
}