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

The Adventures of Rick Rocket

LIN 2009

WIN 2005

LIN 2011

WIN 2002? *

WIN 2009-07

LIN 2003-07-01

LIN 2005

LIN 2002

LIN 2008

Inherit the Earth: Quest for the Orb

DOS 1994

Warp Rogue

WIN ? *

PARSEC47

WIN 2003-11

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		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
Dreamcast		1
iOS		1
Mobile		1
WinCE		1
Palm		1
TI Calculators		1
Wii		1
GBA		1
GameCube		1

By year

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