Only tested on MacOS so far -- might work on windows with MinGW
Install SDL2 and SDL2-image using brew, ie
brew install sdl2 sdl2-image
Make sure project is set to correct OS in bottom right
Press cmd + shift + b
to build
https://www.libsdl.org/download-2.0.php
https://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_image/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/files/latest/download
https://programmer.help/blogs/vscode-sdl2-configuration-tutorial.html
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhfAbcv9cehhkG7ZQK0nfIGJC_C-wSLrx
http://lazyfoo.net/tutorials/SDL/index.php
https://github.com/ninap41/Cplusplus-SDL2-Starter-For-Game-Development