SDL Tutorials

There are a number of SDL tutorials available from different sources.

MOST OF THIS PAGE HAS NOT BEEN UPDATED FOR SDL3 YET.

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SDLTutorials.com: A whole website about SDL tutorials, including SDL basics, events, animation, entities, maps and other topics.
SDL2 Game Tutorials: Tutorials on building 3 complete games using SDL 2.0.
C++/OpenGL/SDL Game Engine Tutorials: SDL game engine tutorials for absolute beginners, written by the lead developer of Seed of Andromeda.
SDL Made Easy: A collection of video tutorials on various SDL topics.
Beginning Game Programming v2.0: A collection of detailed tutorials for game programming using SDL 2.0 with C++.
TwinklebearDev: Tutorials covering a wide variety of introductory topics with SDL 2.0.
Remaking Cavestory in C++: Video tutorial series on recreating Cave Story using SDL.
C++/SDL2 RPG Physics Based 2D Platformer for Beginners Tutorial: A playlist of beginner SDL2 tutorials, focusing on the basics for setting up a RPG 2D platformer. Also features tutorials on how to set up SDL2 on Windows and Linux.
SDL2 Tutorials: A collection of SDL2 tutorials ranging from beginner to expert level.

How to setup Codeblocks mingw SDL2.0: A video tutorial showing how to setup SDL 2.0 with codeblocks mingw32 compiler.
How to setup Codeblocks mingw, SDL2.0 Opengl 3+ and GLEW simple project included : A video tutorial showing how to setup SDL 2.0 with codeblocks mingw32 compiler with OpenGL 3.0+ & compiling GLEW libraries
How To Get Started with SDL2 OpenGL C++ Programming on Linux: A video showing how to get started with SDL2 and OpenGL on Linux, using Visual Studio Code and Cmake. Some prior knowledge of C++ and Linux is required.
SDL2 and C++ Video Tutorial Series: A YouTube series of videos showing how to setup SDL2 with C++ and various other beginner to intermediate level topics on using SDL2.

HowTo: SDL on Android: An example of setting up SDL on Android
Building an Android application using the SDL (Archived): An example of building an Android application using the SDL

SDL Haptic in depth (Archived): Covers the basics of how to create and playback simple force feedback effects with SDL

Text Input: Using SDL for text inputs with specific consideration for international users.

Condition variables in SDL (Archived): A good discussion of condition variables (in computer science rather than gaming context), some mention of mutex and semaphore use.