SDL2 Released

dugan · 08-13-2013, 11:37 AM

SDL2 has been released. Go check it out at http://www.libsd.org.

The announcement:

http://lists.libsdl.org/pipermail/sd...st/089854.html

Quote:

After many years in development, SDL 2.0.0 has finally been released!

http://www.libsdl.org/download-2.0.php
http://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_image/
http://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_mixer/
http://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_net/
http://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_ttf/

Ryan has put together an introduction to migrating your existing SDL application to 2.0:

http://wiki.libsdl.org/moin.fcg/MigrationGuide

More extensive documentation can be found on the community supported wiki:

http://wiki.libsdl.org/

Valve uses SDL 2.0 for game controller support and sundry other things in Steam, and the new release will be going into the Steam Linux Runtime in the next day or so.

These are the most important new features in SDL 2.0:

Full 3D hardware acceleration
Support for OpenGL 3.0+ in various profiles (core, compatibility, debug, robust, etc)
Support for OpenGL ES
Support for multiple windows
Support for multiple displays
Support for multiple audio devices
Android and iOS support
Simple 2D rendering API that can use Direct3D, OpenGL, OpenGL ES, or software rendering behind the scenes
Force Feedback available on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux
XInput and XAudio2 support for Windows
Atomic operations
Power management (exposes battery life remaining, etc)
Shaped windows
32-bit audio (int and float)
Simplified Game Controller API (the Joystick API is still here, too!)
Touch support (multitouch, gestures, etc)
Better fullscreen support
Better keyboard support (scancodes vs keycodes, etc).
Message boxes
Clipboard support
Basic Drag'n'Drop support
Proper unicode input and IME support
A really powerful assert macro
Lots of old annoyances from 1.2 are gone
Many other things!

Enjoy!
--Sam Lantinga

TobiSGD · 08-13-2013, 02:49 PM

Nice. Two things missing in that list that I think are important:
- Full Wayland support, so any game using SDL2 will work in X and Wayland without a problem
- license changed to the zlib license, which may attract more commercial developers than the previous LGPL license.