('''SDL''') is a cross-platform multimedia
Library that creates an abstraction over various platforms'
Graphics , sound, and input
API s, allowing a developer to write a
Computer Game or other
Multimedia application once and run it on
GNU/Linux ,
Windows ,
Mac OS Classic ,
Mac OS X ,
BeOS ,
FreeBSD ,
OpenBSD ,
Solaris ,
QNX ,
IRIX , and a few other unofficially ported platforms. It manages video, events, numeric audio, CD-ROM sound, threads, and timers.
Sam Lantinga created the library, first releasing it in early
1998 , while working for
Loki Software . He got the idea while porting a Windows application to Macintosh. He then used SDL to port
Doom to
BeOS (see
Doom Source Port s). Several other free libraries appeared to work with SDL, such as
SMPEG and
OpenAL .
The SDL is mainly coded in
C but has
Bindings to many languages and exists on several
Operating System s.
SDL itself is very simple; it merely acts as a thin, cross-platform wrapper, providing support for 2D pixel operations, sound, file access, event handling, timing, threading, and more.
OpenGL is often used with SDL to provide fast 3D rendering. It is often thought of as a cross-platform
DirectX , although it lacks some of its more advanced functionality. SDL instead has a huge number of third party extensions that make it easy to do more advanced functions.
It is freely available
Open Source and is licensed under the
LGPL .
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