SDL Tutorials

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

Multi-Subject

• 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

• Migrating a C++ game from SDL 1.2 to SDL 2.0 (Archived)

  • An example of a project upgrade from SDL 1.2 to SDL 2.0

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=UwpZOwT9nVc

  • 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 (Archived)

  • 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

  • Using SDL 1.3 alpha with OpenGL 3.2 Context

• OpenGL ES for iPhone : A Simple Tutorial

  • A brief introduction to OpenGL ES

Haptic

• https://web.archive.org/web/20130728040700/http://bobbens.dyndns.org/journal/2010/sdl_haptic (Archived)

  • 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 (Archived)

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

libSDL2pp

• https://github.com/libSDL2pp/libSDL2pp-tutorial

  • Tutorial for libSDL2pp, C++11 bindings/wrapper for SDL2