Simple DirectMedia Layer

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Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) is a cross-platform, free and open source software multimedia library written in C that presents a simple interface to various platforms' graphics, sound, and input devices. Software developers use it to write computer games or other multimedia applications that can run on many operating systems including Windows, Mac OS X, OS 9, Linux, the PSP, Google Android, AmigaOS, AmigaOS 4, Haiku/BeOS, MorphOS, OpenVMS, Syllable, and WebOS. It manages video, events, digital audio, CD-ROM, sound, threads, shared object loading, networking and timers.[1]




The SDL library has bindings for a substantial number of programming languages, from the popular (C++, Perl, C, Python (through pygame), Pascal etc.) to the less known (such as Euphoria or Pliant). This, and the fact that it is open-source and licensed under the LGPL, make SDL a common choice for many multimedia applications.

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