SDL 1.2 Tutorials

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

Setup

• SDL and MYSYS/MinGW (Archive)

  • A tutorial detailing how to set up the MSYS/MinGW build system for compiling SDL/OpenGL applications

Multi-Subject

• SDLTutorials.com

  • 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

• Beginning Game Programming

  • 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

• Xcode SDL Development Setup

  • 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

• SDL - Grundlagen und Grafik

  • A German tutorial on SDL basics and graphics

Video

• Direct3D 9.0 with SDL

  • Using SDL with Direct3D for graphics

• SDL Corner - Using OpenGL with SDL

  • Lots of advanced information on using SDL with OpenGL

• SDL and OpenGL

  • Using SDL and OpenGL on Mac OS X

• SDL in Visual Studio 2008

  • A very basic guide for setting up SDL for OpenGL development in Visual Studio 2008

• Sol's Graphics for Beginners

  • Setting up SDL with Visual C++ 6.0, basic graphics programming

• SDL Setup Guide 1.1 (Archive)

  • Setting up an SDL project with Visual Studio .NET

• Help! How Do I Move An Image?

  • 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

• SDL Corner - Audio with SDL

  • Lots of advanced information on using SDL's audio support

• Roger's SDL Tutorials

  • SDL_mixer, SDL_RWops