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

Torus Trooper

WIN 2004

Rocks 'n' Diamonds

LIN 1998-12-05

SoulFu

WIN 1969-12-31

StarFight VI: Gatekeepers

WIN 2000

Inherit the Earth: Quest for the Orb

LIN 2004-09-24

WIN 2012-09-28

WIN 2003-07

NDS 200?

LIN TBA

Amnesia: The Dark Descent

OSX 2010-09-08

xwelltris

LIN 2002

Another World

LIN 2013-09-16

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

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Related site

Official website

Platforms

Linux		914
BeOS		194
BSD		137
Windows		121
Mac OS X		77
Pandora		31
GP2X		31
OS/2		30
Solaris		24
Amiga		12
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