SDL 1.2 Tutorials
There are a number of SDL tutorials available from different sources.
Contents
Setup
- A tutorial detailing how to set up the MSYS/MinGW build system for compiling SDL/OpenGL applications
Multi-Subject
- Wow! A whole website about SDL tutorials, including SDL basics, events, animation, entities, maps and other topics
Matthew Casperson's SDL Tutorials (Archive)
- SDL tutorials on a variety of topics for shoot 'em up games
The Game Programming Wiki: SDL Tutorials
- A large number of SDL tutorials covering a variety of different topics
- A series of tutorials on game concepts geared for SDL developers. Tutorials (currently 36!) are written using C++ as the programming language and SDL as the API.
GFX with SDL (by Marius) (Archive)
- A very nice set of tutorials covering using SDL with Dev-C++, 2D graphics and sound
- This tutorial covers setting up an Xcode project with SDL 1.2.14, SDL_image, SDL_mixer, SDL_ttf, and the Boost C++ libraries (header files only) on OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. It uses Xcode version 3.2.5 and the Classic Invaders source (2 MB) files.
Tutorial / Einsteigerkurs in das Programmieren mit der SDL in C
- The basics of using various features of SDL, in German
- A German tutorial on SDL basics and graphics
Video
- Using SDL with Direct3D for graphics
SDL Corner - Using OpenGL with SDL
- Lots of advanced information on using SDL with OpenGL
- Using SDL and OpenGL on Mac OS X
- A very basic guide for setting up SDL for OpenGL development in Visual Studio 2008
- Setting up SDL with Visual C++ 6.0, basic graphics programming
- Setting up an SDL project with Visual Studio .NET
- Using Pygame to move images around in a simple game
How I Rendered the Dungeons on SDL
Exploring the code used to render 2D mazes in DungeonMaker
Audio
- Lots of advanced information on using SDL's audio support
- SDL_mixer, SDL_RWops