Awesome SDL

A curated list of awesome open source libraries, bindings, and games for Simple Directmedia Layer (SDL), a cross-platform development library designed to provide low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, and graphics hardware via OpenGL and Direct3D.

Contents

• Libraries
• Bindings
• Templates

Libraries

Name	Description	License
SDL_assetsys	Load SDL assets from .zip files with the file abstraction library, assetsys	ZLIB
SDL_gfx	Graphics drawing primitives and other support functions	ZLIB
SDL_mixer	An audio mixer that supports various file formats for SDL	ZLIB
SDL_gesture	SDL2's gesture API split out into a single-header library	ZLIB
SDL_image	Image decoding for many popular formats for SDL	ZLIB
SDL_PhysFS	PhysicsFS virtual file system support for SDL	ZLIB
SDL_ttf	Support for TrueType (.ttf) font files with SDL	ZLIB
SDL_net	A simple, cross-platform wrapper over TCP/IP sockets	ZLIB
SDL_tty	TTY-like interface for SDL	GPL
SDL-gpu	Library for making hardware-accelerated 2D graphics easy	MIT
SDL_sound	An abstract soundfile decoder	MIT
SDL_rtf	Display Rich Text Format (RTF) documents in your SDL applications	ZLIB
Dear ImGUI	Immediate-mode graphical user interface	MIT
Nuklear	A single-header ANSI C immediate mode cross-platform GUI library	MIT
bgfx	Cross-platform, graphics API agnostic, rendering library	BSD-2
SDL_stbimage.h	Load images into SDL with stb_image.h	PD

Bindings

Name	Language
SDLAda	Ada
BeefLibs SDL2	Beef
C# SDL2#	C#
D DerelictSDL2	D
go-sdl2	Go
Haskell	Haskell
Lua-SDL2	Lua
OCaml Tsdl	Ocaml
Pascal	Pascal
Pascal SDL 2	Pascal
SDL2 for Pascal	Pascal
pygame_sdl2	Python
PySDL2	Python
pysdl2-cffi	Python
pygame-ce	Python
Rust-SDL2	Rust
sdlpp	C++
odl	C#

Templates

Name	Description
sdl-bgfx-imgui-starter	Starter project for graphics applications using SDL, bgfx and Dear ImGui
SDL3 App from Source Minimal Example	Example for building and using SDL3 from source using C++ and CMake

License

This is released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).