# How to use racket-raylib-2d on Windows 10

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**Created:** [February 12, 2022, 12:55am UTC](https://racket.discourse.group/t/how-to-use-racket-raylib-2d-on-windows-10/684 "2022-02-12T00:55:39Z")\
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This has eluded me for a long time and I just figured it out so I'd like to share with other people.

1. Go to [Releases · raysan5/raylib · GitHub](https://github.com/raysan5/raylib/releases) and scroll down to raylib v2.5.0
2. Download raylib-2.5.0-Win64-mingw.zip
3. Open Dr. Racket, Racket on the cmdline, or your favorite text editor and run this code to find out where Racket looks dynamically linked libraries

```scheme
#lang racket
(require setup/dirs)
(get-lib-search-dirs)

```

mine are in 2 places `'(#<path:C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Racket\8.4\lib> #<path:C:\Program Files\Racket\lib>)`  
4. extract the libraylib.dll and put in one of the two locations. I put mine in `C:\Program Files\Racket\lib`  
5. Install racket-raylib-2d with `raco pkg install racket-raylib-2d`  
references  
6. Run the example code

```scheme
#lang racket
(require raylib-2d
         raylib-2d/util
         raylib-2d/colors)

(define screenWidth 800)
(define screenHeight 450)

;; Initialization
(InitWindow screenWidth screenHeight "raylib [core] example - basic window")

(SetTargetFPS 60) ; Set our game to run at 60 frames-per-second

(raylib-basic-loop
 (begin-drawing
   (ClearBackground RAYWHITE)
   (DrawText "Congrats! You created your first window!" 190 200 20 LIGHTGRAY)))

```

I would assume to run other c libraries the same process would apply (assuming racket bindings existed)

1. [6.8&nbsp;API for Finding Installation Directories](https://docs.racket-lang.org/raco/dirs.html#%28def._%28%28lib._setup%2Fdirs..rkt%29._get-lib-search-dirs%29%29)