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SDL provides low-level access to essential multimedia hardware for cross-platform game and software development. It supports a vast array of operating systems and programming languages.

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  • Pros

    • Cross-platform multimedia library
    • Low-level hardware access
    • Supports numerous operating systems
    • Extensive language bindings
    • Permissive LGPL license

  • Cons

    • Some OS support is not official
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GENERAL
Release
Latest update
Version
2.0.12
OPERATING SYSTEMS
Platform
Windows
Operating System
  • Windows XP
  • Windows 8
  • Windows Vista
  • Windows 10
  • Windows 7
Additional Requirements
Android 2.3.3+, iOS 5.1.1+, Linux 2.6+, MacOS X 10.5+
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Total Downloads
8,563
Downloads Last Week
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Developer’s Description

By SDL
Gain access to graphics hardware, audio output, and gaming peripherals within cross-platform development library.
Simple DirectMedia Layer is a cross-platform multimedia library designed to provide low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, 3D hardware via OpenGL, and 2D video framebuffer. It is used by MPEG playback software, emulators, and many popular games, including the award winning Linux port of "Civilization: Call To Power." SDL supports Linux, Windows, Windows CE, BeOS, MacOS, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, BSD/OS, Solaris, IRIX, and QNX. The code contains support for AmigaOS, Dreamcast, Atari, AIX, OSF/Tru64, RISC OS, SymbianOS, and OS/2, but these are not officially supported. SDL is written in C, but works with C++ natively, and has bindings to several other languages, including Ada, C#, Eiffel, Erlang, Euphoria, Guile, Haskell, Java, Lisp, Lua, ML, Objective C, Pascal, Perl, PHP, Pike, Pliant, Python, Ruby, and Smalltalk. SDL is distributed under GNU LGPL version 2. This license allows you to use SDL freely in commercial programs as long as you link with the dynamic library.
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