Supported Platforms

SDL3 has been known to work on the following platforms at some point, in no specific order:

• Windows XP and later.
• Linux
• macOS 10.14 and later.
• iOS
• Android
• tvOS
• VisionOS
• Haiku OS
• Emscripten (apps in web browsers)
• FreeBSD
• OpenBSD
• NetBSD
• QNX
• RISCOS
• Various other Unix-like systems will likely be able to compile and run SDL out of the box.
• Homebrew Sony PSP
• Homebrew Sony PSVita
• Homebrew Sony PlayStation 2
• Homebrew Nintendo 3DS
• Nintendo Switch (separate NDA-only fork)
• Sony PlayStation 4 (separate NDA-only fork)
• Sony PlayStation 5 (separate NDA-only fork)

Note that the SDL maintainers do not test on all these platforms; if a less-common system breaks, please let us know and send patches if you can.

If you'd like to port SDL to a new platform, feel free to get in touch! A guide to porting SDL2 was written a while ago, and most of it still applies to SDL3.

Removed Platforms

The following platforms were supported in SDL2, but were removed for SDL3:

• OS/2
• N-Gage
• Google Stadia
• Windows UWP
• Older macOS releases (everything before 10.14 Mojave)

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