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 2007-08-05

LIN 2000-03

LIN ? *

LIN 2007-07-24

LIN 2001-11-25

LIN 2003

WIN 2004

LIN 2006

LIN 2005

LIN ? *

LIN 2004-08-13

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

compare with these groups

Related site

Official website

Platforms

Linux		914
BeOS		194
BSD		137
Windows		121
Mac OS X		77
GP2X		31
Pandora		31
OS/2		30
Solaris		24
Unix		12
Amiga		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
WinCE		1
Palm		1
TI Calculators		1
Wii		1
GBA		1
GameCube		1
TizenOS		1
PS4		1
Win3.1		1

By year

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