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Who made SDL, SDL2 and SDL3?

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SDL was developed between 1998 and 2001 by Sam Lantinga, the chief programmer of the software company Loki Games. It should be a tool to convert successful Windows games to Linux. In 2002 the company got bankrupt though, but Lantinga went on developing SDL. So it got updated continuously  until today. In August 2013 the successor SDL2 has been released.

On January the 21st in 2025 SDL3 has been released and introduces a lot of new features which allow development of high performance applications using up-to-date technologies.

Although the original library isn’t written in Pascal, fortunately the SDL3 headers got translated to Pascal, so the SDL3 library is usable for Pascal developers as well.

What is this page about?

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This page is made to help you to start with SDL3 (or the older SDL or SDL2) under Free Pascal (or other Pascal dialects) and to acquaint yourself with SDL’s concepts and commands.

Be aware though that my tutorials gives just a brief overview and introduction to SDL and are far from being all-embracing.

The tutorials aim at Pascal programmers knowing the basic concepts (loops, functions, pointers) of Pascal and now like to progress to SDL3 (or older SDL/SDL2).