textpad help

I had taken a couple college class on programing and had worked with sdl a bit with Microsoft visual studios and used text pad for the most part in the other bits. So I have textpad on my laptop and would like to make a few tools in sdl for my gaming sessions but I can't seem to get it to work I have a development kit for c++ and the downloaded the sdl one but I don't know how to get it to work for textpad and can't find anything online.

OP here, trying to get it to work with the -l but it is still fucking up.

c:/djgpp/bin/ld.exe: cannot find -lSDL.lib

is the error it gives. I am really stuck I read over the stuff and tired a few things but I just don't know what to do.