Simple DirectMedia Layer

Software theme

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

1644

games

platforms

Alternate name: SDL

LIN 2000

LIN ? *

WIN 2006

LIN 2009

Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory

LIN 2003-05-28

Spout

WIN 2002-03-31

Trackballs

LIN 2003

LIN 2000

The Goonies - 20th anniversary

LIN 2006

LIN 2008

LIN 2006-04

The first video game about Simple DirectMedia Layer was released in 1990.

New Breed Software, ABA Games and LGames has published most of these games

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

Related site

Official website

Platforms

Linux		914
BeOS		194
BSD		137
Windows		120
Mac OS X		77
Pandora		31
GP2X		31
OS/2		30
Solaris		24
Amiga		13
Unix		12
Atari ST		9
Zaurus		9
Mac OS Classic		6
MS-DOS		5
Android		5
Xbox		4
PSP		3
Amiga AGA		3
Nintendo DS		2
GamePark 32		2
Win3.1		1
PS Vita		1
Dreamcast		1
iOS		1
Mobile		1
WinCE		1
Palm		1
TI Calculators		1
Wii		1

By year

A	1998 - Initial release
B	2007 - SDL 1.2.13
C	2013 - SDL 2.0.0

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