Simple DirectMedia Layer

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Simple Directmedia Layer (SDL) is a library to access audio, graphics, and controllers.
It can be used for developing games and graphics applications without a full-blown game engine like Unity.
The current version is SDL2.

Getting Started

Installation

I suggest including SDL2 as a git submodule so you don't need to install it.
Simply clone SDL2 into a folder such as extern and include the following in your CMakeLists: 

add_subdirectory(extern/SDL EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL)
include_directories(${SDL2_BINARY_DIR}/include)

# add_executable(my_app src/main.cpp)
target_link_libraries(my_app SDL2::SDL2-static)

Then you can include SDL in your source: #include <SDL.h>.

You may also want libSDL2pp/libSDL2pp for C++ bindings.

Resources

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