The latest development version of SDL is available via CVS: cvs -d :pserver:guest@libsdl.org:/home/sdlweb/libsdl.org/cvs login # No password, so just hit enter when prompted for a password cvs -d :pserver:guest@libsdl.org:/home/sdlweb/libsdl.org/cvs checkout SDL When you check a fresh copy of SDL out of CVS, you need to generate the files used by make by running the "autogen.sh" script, which will run aclocal, automake, autoconf and then run configure. There is a web interface to cvs at http://www.libsdl.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi