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.

1643

games

platforms

Alternate name: SDL

WIN 2006-11

LIN 2002

LIN 2001-11-25

LIN 2005

LIN 1999

Fish Fillets - The Next Generation

LIN 2004-10-10

LIN 2000

LIN 2002

WIN 2012-10-31

WIN 2012-03

LIN 2003

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
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

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