diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 0474246..e69de29 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-[submodule "submodules/SDL_ttf"]
-	path = submodules/SDL_ttf
-	url = https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL_ttf.git
-	shallow = true
-[submodule "submodules/SDL"]
-	path = submodules/SDL
-	url = https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL.git
-	shallow = true
diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 4dc99d0..865bc98 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,11 +1,5 @@
 cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.30)
 
-# This assumes the SDL source is available in vendored/SDL
-add_subdirectory(submodules/SDL EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL)
-
-# This assumes the SDL_ttf source is available in vendored/SDL_ttf
-add_subdirectory(submodules/SDL_ttf EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL)
-
 project(SDL_FPSCounter C)
 
 add_subdirectory(src/)
diff --git a/src/CMakeLists.txt b/src/CMakeLists.txt
index 1fbd159..6be790e 100644
--- a/src/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
 add_library(SDL_FPSCounter STATIC SDL_FPSCounter.c)
 
+find_package(SDL3 REQUIRED CONFIG REQUIRED COMPONENTS SDL3-shared)
+find_package(SDL3_ttf REQUIRED CONFIG REQUIRED COMPONENTS SDL3_ttf-shared)
+
 add_executable(fps-counter WIN32 main.c)
+
 target_link_libraries(fps-counter PRIVATE SDL_FPSCounter SDL3_ttf::SDL3_ttf SDL3::SDL3)
diff --git a/submodules/SDL b/submodules/SDL
deleted file mode 160000
index 7ab1412..0000000
--- a/submodules/SDL
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit 7ab1412e208e8fca12f99caae665de61e9fcf5a6
diff --git a/submodules/SDL_ttf b/submodules/SDL_ttf
deleted file mode 160000
index aaab1b9..0000000
--- a/submodules/SDL_ttf
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit aaab1b9e98e8bbca572064ceb23f0fd916b2add5