SDL Tutorials

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

Multi-Subject

• SDLTutorials.com

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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

• 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

• C++/SDL2 RPG Physics Based 2D Platformer for Beginners Tutorial

A playlist of beginner SDL2 tutorials, focusing on the basics for setting up a RPG 2D platformer. Also features tutorials on how to set up SDL2 on Windows and Linux.

• SDL2 Tutorials

A collection of SDL2 tutorials ranging from beginner to expert level.

• Gigi Labs SDL2 Tutorials

A set of tutorials to cover the basics of several areas of SDL2.

Setup

• How to setup Codeblocks mingw SDL2.0

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

• How to setup Codeblocks mingw, SDL2.0 Opengl 3+ and GLEW simple project included.

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

• How To Get Started with SDL2 OpenGL C++ Programming on Linux

A video showing how to get started with SDL2 and OpenGL on Linux, using Visual Studio Code and Cmake. Some prior knowledge of C++ and Linux is required.

• SDL2 and C++ Video Tutorial Series

A YouTube series of videos showing how to setup SDL2 with C++ and various other beginner to intermediate level topics on using SDL2.

Android

• 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

Audio

• Using SDL_AudioStream

A guide to the new audio stream API

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

• SDL Haptic in depth (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

• libSDL2pp

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