1 

     2                          Simple DirectMedia Layer

     3 

     4                                   (SDL)

     5 

     6                                 Version 1.2

     7 

     8 ---

     9 http://www.libsdl.org/

    10 

    11 This is the Simple DirectMedia Layer, a general API that provides low

    12 level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, 3D hardware via OpenGL,

    13 and 2D framebuffer across multiple platforms.

    14 

    15 The current version supports Linux, Windows CE/95/98/ME/XP/Vista, BeOS,

    16 MacOS Classic, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, BSD/OS, Solaris, IRIX,

    17 and QNX.  The code contains support for Dreamcast, Atari, AIX, OSF/Tru64,

    18 RISC OS, SymbianOS, Nintendo DS, and OS/2, but these are not officially

    19 supported.

    20 

    21 SDL is written in C, but works with C++ natively, and has bindings to

    22 several other languages, including Ada, C#, Eiffel, Erlang, Euphoria,

    23 Guile, Haskell, Java, Lisp, Lua, ML, Objective C, Pascal, Perl, PHP,

    24 Pike, Pliant, Python, Ruby, and Smalltalk.

    25 

    26 This library is distributed under GNU LGPL version 2, which can be

    27 found in the file  "COPYING".  This license allows you to use SDL

    28 freely in commercial programs as long as you link with the dynamic

    29 library.

    30 

    31 The best way to learn how to use SDL is to check out the header files in

    32 the "include" subdirectory and the programs in the "test" subdirectory.

    33 The header files and test programs are well commented and always up to date.

    34 More documentation is available in HTML format in "docs/index.html", and

    35 a documentation wiki is available online at:

    36 	http://www.libsdl.org/cgi/docwiki.cgi

    37 

    38 The test programs in the "test" subdirectory are in the public domain.

    39 

    40 Frequently asked questions are answered online:

    41 	http://www.libsdl.org/faq.php

    42 

    43 If you need help with the library, or just want to discuss SDL related

    44 issues, you can join the developers mailing list:

    45 	http://www.libsdl.org/mailing-list.php

    46 

    47 Enjoy!

    48 	Sam Lantinga				(slouken@libsdl.org)

    49