About:
SDL is a library that allows you portable low-level access to a video framebuffer, audio output, mouse, and keyboard. With SDL, it is easy to write portable games which run on many different platforms.

Release focus: Major feature enhancements

Changes:
This release has a joystick driver for MacOS X, CD-ROM support for BSD/OS, numerous bugfixes, a platform-independent OpenGL header, improved TV output, nVidia framebuffer acceleration, and more.

Author:
Sam Lantinga [contact developer]

Rating:	reset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8.68/10.00 (37 votes)

Homepage:
http://www.libsdl.org/
Tar/GZ:
http://www.libsdl.org/download-1.2.php
Zip:
http://www.libsdl.org/download-1.2.php
Changelog:
http://www.libsdl.org/release/changes-1.2.html
RPM package:
http://www.libsdl.org/download-1.2.php
OS X package:
http://www.libsdl.org/download-1.2.php
CVS tree (cvsweb):
http://www.libsdl.org/cgi/viewvc.cgi/
Bug tracker:
http://bugzilla.libsdl.org/

Trove categories: [change]

[Intended Audience]		Developers
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
[Topic]		Games/Entertainment

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	1.2.10	17-May-2006	GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL)

 Releases

Version	Focus	Date
1.2.10	Major bugfixes	17-May-2006 12:18
1.2.9	N/A	17-Oct-2005 15:04
1.2.8	Minor bugfixes	08-Apr-2005 13:30
1.2.6	Minor feature enhancements	08-Sep-2003 19:21
1.2.5	Major bugfixes	13-Jan-2003 07:45
1.2.4	Minor bugfixes	25-Jun-2002 02:05
1.2.3	Major feature enhancements	05-Dec-2001 22:50
1.2.1	N/A	25-Jun-2001 22:06
1.2.0	Major feature enhancements	27-Mar-2001 07:05
1.1.8	Major bugfixes	13-Feb-2001 12:13

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 Comments

[»] Wrong topic
by Kreiger - Aug 10th 2004 07:49:06

Since SDL isn't a game, how about changing the topic from "Games/Entertainment" to "Software Development::Libraries" ?

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[»] ld version 2.11 required
by erl - Oct 10th 2001 16:35:53

Compiling SDL 1.2 from source with ld version 2.11, ld segfaults when linking some assembler stuff.

Upgrading to binutils 2.11.2 solved this problem for me.

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[»] Re: ld version *2.11.2* required
by erl - Oct 10th 2001 16:37:06

Sorry, wrong subject on my posting, should be: ld version 2.11.2 or later requred...

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[»] Quality and Community
by Guido Draheim - Jun 26th 2001 09:50:02

SDL has been developed by Loki as the foundation for their ports of commercial games from Win32 to Linux, it has the virtue known as production quality that comes from usage for a dozen products. Later more platforms and features were added, many of them made from a very active developer community. Quite some add-on packages exist that are not shipped with the core-SDL, have a look at libsdl.org/libraries. Using plain Ansi C and the Lesser GPL has furthered re-usage of the mulitmedia-routines from SDL, there are bindings for about every computer language around, and many graphics oriented software has an SDL-backend now. Slowly it has become the cross-platform cross-application multimedia API while still being easy to use.

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[»] Excellent!
by Shaman - Dec 14th 1999 09:58:06

Compiles and works cleanly on Linux, Solaris and Solaris x86 for me. This is the game SDK that the others should be judged by IMHO.

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