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| Simple DirectMedia Layer |
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| (SDL) |
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| Version 1.2 |
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| http://www.libsdl.org/ |
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| This is the Simple DirectMedia Layer, a general API that provides low |
| level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, 3D hardware via OpenGL, |
| and 2D framebuffer across multiple platforms. |
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| The current version supports Linux, Windows CE/95/98/ME/XP/Vista, BeOS, |
| MacOS Classic, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, BSD/OS, Solaris, IRIX, |
| and QNX. The code contains support for Dreamcast, Atari, AIX, OSF/Tru64, |
| RISC OS, SymbianOS, Nintendo DS, and OS/2, but these are not officially |
| supported. |
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| SDL is written in C, but works with C++ natively, and has bindings to |
| several other languages, including Ada, C#, Eiffel, Erlang, Euphoria, |
| Guile, Haskell, Java, Lisp, Lua, ML, Objective C, Pascal, Perl, PHP, |
| Pike, Pliant, Python, Ruby, and Smalltalk. |
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| This library is distributed under GNU LGPL version 2, which can be |
| found in the file "COPYING". This license allows you to use SDL |
| freely in commercial programs as long as you link with the dynamic |
| library. |
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| The best way to learn how to use SDL is to check out the header files in |
| the "include" subdirectory and the programs in the "test" subdirectory. |
| The header files and test programs are well commented and always up to date. |
| More documentation is available in HTML format in "docs/index.html", and |
| a documentation wiki is available online at: |
| http://www.libsdl.org/cgi/docwiki.cgi |
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| The test programs in the "test" subdirectory are in the public domain. |
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| Frequently asked questions are answered online: |
| http://www.libsdl.org/faq.php |
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| If you need help with the library, or just want to discuss SDL related |
| issues, you can join the developers mailing list: |
| http://www.libsdl.org/mailing-list.php |
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| Enjoy! |
| Sam Lantinga (slouken@libsdl.org) |
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