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Simple DirectMedia Layer

59 mentions on Hacker News by 50 people: 17 stories, 42 comments · first 2021-05-08 · latest 2026-10-27

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  1. …layer, where you can override it with your own copy of SDL even if it was statically linked: https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/blob/main/docs/README-dyna...
    comment by edflsafoiewq · 2022-01-02 · in Fixing stutters in Papers Please on Linux
  2. 1. Those will probably use SDL which has got support for wayland CSD: https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/pull/4068 2. Wine apps will probably have to draw the win32 decorations. Native apps can implement their own decorations or can use GTK…
    comment by shatteredgate · 2021-12-20 · in Bottles: GUI front end to run Windows software on Linux
  3. …I barely know SDL, but it does not look like it is super straightforward to integrate a socket: https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/blob/main/src/video/windows/SDL_windowsevents.c#L1430 https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL-1.2/blob/main/src/even…
    comment by jstimpfle · 2021-12-11 · in Space-shooter.c: cross-platform, top-down 2D space shooter written in C
  4. ... apparently I was mistaken, this hasn't been released yet, it will be out with 2.0.18[0] [0] https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/milestone/2
    comment by krapp · 2021-11-14 · in SDL gets an Epic MegaGrant to work on next-gen Vulkan API
  5. …write, if I feel like a masochist) a lightweight GUI library that uses QML like syntax in Lua. [0] https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/pull/4195
    comment by krapp · 2021-07-31 · in The Grim GUI Landscape
  6. …of code exactly? For comparison SDLs wayland backend implementation is like <10k lines of code: https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/tree/main/src/video/waylan...
    comment by zokier · 2021-05-23 · in Wayland: “Move fast and break things” as a moral imperative
  7. …could still be using libraries dynamically loaded at runtime for other necessary system components: https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/blob/c59d4dcd38c382a1e9b69... This is a hard requirement if your application uses OpenGL or Vulkan, you…
    comment by zxzax · 2021-05-22 · in Building Outer Wonders for Linux
  8. …setting an env var: SDL_DYNAMIC_API=/my/actual/libSDL-2.0.so.0 ./MyGameThatIsStaticallyLinkedToSDL2 https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/blob/main/docs/README-dyna...
    comment by MayeulC · 2021-05-22 · in Building Outer Wonders for Linux
  9. …target's endianness? C++20 added std::endian. Otherwise you can use a macro like this one from SDL https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/blob/9dc97afa7190aca5bdf92...
    comment by edflsafoiewq · 2021-05-08 · in The Byte Order Fiasco