SDL Tutorials

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

Multi-Subject

• TwinklebearDev

  • Tutorials covering a wide variety of introductory topics with SDL 2.0

• SDLTutorials.com

  • A whole website about SDL tutorials, including SDL basics, events, animation, entities, maps and other topics

• Migrating a C++ game from SDL 1.2 to SDL 2

  • An example of a project upgrade from SDL 1.2 to SDL 2

Setup

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWGtuc5uqF4

  • A video tutorial showing how to setup SDL 2.0 with codeblocks mingw32 compiler

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWGtuc5uqF4

  • A video tutorial showing how to setup SDL 2.0 with codeblocks mingw32 compiler with OpenGL 3.0+ & compiling GLEW libraries

Android

• http://www.dinomage.com/2013/01/howto-sdl-on-android/

  • An example of setting up SDL on Android

• Building an Android application using the SDL

  • An example of building an Android application using the SDL

Video

• Streaming textures with SDL 2.0

  • A quick guide to streaming textures.

• Using GLSL with SDL

  • A tutorial on enabling and using GLSL extensions with SDL.

  • Check out http://hg.libsdl.org/SDL/file/default/test/testshader.c also.

OpenGL

• OpenGL 3 Samples Pack

  • Using SDL 2.0 beta with OpenGL 3

• OpenGL 3.2 and SDL

  • Creating a Cross Platform OpenGL 3.2 Context in SDL

• OpenGL ES for iPhone : A Simple Tutorial

  • A brief introduction to OpenGL ES

Haptic

• The SDL 2.0 Haptic Interface

  • Covers the basics of how to create and playback simple force feedback effects with SDL.

Input

• Text Input

  • Using SDL for text inputs with specific consideration for international users.

Threads

• Condition variables in SDL

  • A good discussion of condition variables, in computer science rather than gaming context. Some mention of mutex and semaphore use.

SDL 1.2

• SDL 1.2 Tutorials