Best way to distribute graphics, audio and levels with an SDL game?

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Published on 2012-08-17T15:46:40Z Indexed on 2012/09/17 3:53 UTC
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I'm working on finishing up a game written in C++ with SDL I've been working on for awhile, and I'm starting to ponder how I'm going to distribute it. It has hundreds of images that are loaded and used throughout the game, as well as a couple dozen .wav files for audio effects.

What is the best way to distribute these? Should I just include the folders with all the files? Or is there a way I can package them into a single file, then open and extract them in my application?

What's the best way to go about this?

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