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Simple DirectMedia Layer

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A cross-platform multimedia library designed to provide low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, 3D hardware via OpenGL, and 2D video framebuffer.

Notable people involved: Bill Kendrick, Kenta Cho, Eugenia Loli-Queru, David White and Ryan C. Gordon

Alternate name: SDL

👁 A Toddler Game (Linux)

A Toddler Game

LIN 2005-02-27 

👁 Formido (OS/2)

Formido

OS/2 2004-12-22 

👁 SolarWolf (Linux)

SolarWolf

LIN 2003 

👁 Enemy Lines 8 (Linux)

Enemy Lines 8

LIN 2007 

👁 Fight or Perish (Linux)

Fight or Perish

LIN 2010 

👁 Abe's Amazing Adventure (Linux)

Abe's Amazing Adventure

LIN 2005-03-05 

👁 Hikou no Mizu (BSD)

Hikou no Mizu

BSD 2016-02-03 

👁 Mass Blaster (Linux)

Mass Blaster

LIN 2011-12-31 

👁 Blue Planet: Age of Aquarius (Linux)

Blue Planet: Age of Aquarius

LIN 2012-12-29 

👁 Fight Win Prevail (Linux)

#10

Fight Win Prevail

LIN 2005-02-14 

👁 The Legend of Zelda: Mystery of Solarus DX (Mac OS X)

#11

The Legend of Zelda: Mystery of Solarus DX

OSX 2008-04-01 

👁 Arx – End Of Sun (Linux)

#12

Arx – End Of Sun

LIN 2016 

SDL supports drawing to framebuffer device, so X11 is not implicitly required in graphical SDL games on Linux. However, SDL games using OpenGL will require X11 still.

Distributed under zlib license since 2.0, used LGPL before that.

Supported platforms:
* Linux, BSD, Solaris, IRIX, QNX
* Windows
* Windows CE
* BeOS
* Mac OS X

Unsupported platforms (that may work):
* AmigaOS
* Dreamcast
* Atari 16-bit
* AIX
* OSF/Tru64
* RISC OS (support dropped with 2.0)
* SymbianOS
* OS/2

Parent groups

License: Lesser GNU Public License, License: PNG/ZLIB, License change, Programming libraries

Child group

Simple DirectMedia Layer 2