Simple DirectMedia Layer
Cross-platform low-level access to audio, input, and graphics hardware
Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) is an open-source, cross-platform C library that provides low-level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, and graphics hardware via OpenGL and Direct3D. It supports Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android, and is widely used in games, emulators, and video playback software. SDL is distributed under the zlib license and has bindings for multiple languages including C#, C++, and Python.
SDL provides a C library that abstracts hardware-level access to audio, input, and graphics, allowing developers to write code once and run it across multiple platforms.
game developers, emulator authors, and multimedia software developers
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- Status
- launched
- Business model
- open-source
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