diff --git a/.travis-before_install.sh b/.travis-before_install.sh
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..97d56f4fb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.travis-before_install.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+set -ex
+
+wget https://www.libsdl.org/release/SDL2-2.0.3.tar.gz
+tar xf SDL2-2.0.3.tar.gz
+(
+cd SDL2-2.0.3
+./configure --enable-static --disable-shared
+make
+sudo make install
+)
diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 1657212b3..178cf0a40 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ before_install:
   - sudo apt-get update -qq # UPDATE REPOS
   #- sudo apt-get upgrade -qq # UPGRADE SYSTEM TO LATEST PATCH LEVEL
   - sudo apt-get install -y -qq
-  - sudo apt-get install libsdl2-dev
+  - sudo ./.travis-before_install.sh
   - sudo mk/linux/setupBuildDeps.sh --quiet # INSTALL OUR DEPENDENCIES
 
 script: