diff --git a/cmake/ExampleDeps.cmake b/cmake/ExampleDeps.cmake
index 907fe1b..1e6ee2e 100644
--- a/cmake/ExampleDeps.cmake
+++ b/cmake/ExampleDeps.cmake
@@ -10,21 +10,10 @@ if(NOT TARGET nlohmann_json::nlohmann_json)
 endif()
 
 find_package(SDL3 CONFIG QUIET)
-set(_need_sdl3_fetch TRUE)
-if(TARGET SDL3::SDL3)
-  get_target_property(_sdl3_include_dirs SDL3::SDL3 INTERFACE_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES)
-  if(_sdl3_include_dirs)
-    set(_need_sdl3_fetch FALSE)
-  endif()
-endif()
-
-if(_need_sdl3_fetch)
+if(NOT TARGET SDL3::SDL3)
   FetchContent_Declare(
     SDL3
     URL https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/releases/download/release-3.2.26/SDL3-3.2.26.tar.gz
   )
   FetchContent_MakeAvailable(SDL3)
 endif()
-
-unset(_need_sdl3_fetch)
-unset(_sdl3_include_dirs)