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.

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Not really an error I just flat out don't know how to get the sdl libs and includes to work with text pad. With visual studios we had to jump through a few hoops to get it to work with sdl but the teacher more or less set it up. I'm just at a complete loss on how to do it.