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1 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//Norman Walsh//DTD DocBook HTML 1.0//EN">
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4 ><TITLE
5 >Introduction</TITLE
6 >
7 </HEAD
8 ><BODY
9 BGCOLOR="#FFF8DC"
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11 LINK="#0000ee"
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13 ALINK="#ff0000"
14 ><DIV
15 CLASS="NAVHEADER"
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17 <HR
18 ALIGN="LEFT"
19 WIDTH="100%"></DIV
20 ><DIV
21 CLASS="PREFACE"
22 ><H1
23 ><A
24 NAME="AEN8"
25 >Introduction</A
26 ></H1
27 ><P
28 >This library is designed to make it easy to write games that run on Linux,
29 Win32 and BeOS using the various native high-performance media interfaces,
30 (for video, audio, etc) and presenting a single source-code level API to
31 your application. This is a fairly low level API, but using this, completely
32 portable applications can be written with a great deal of flexibility.</P
33 ><P
34 >The library is loaded as a dynamically linked library on its native
35 platform, and is currently compiled natively for Linux, compiled for
36 Win32 using a Linux hosted GCC
37 <A
38 HREF="http://www.libsdl.org/Xmingw32/"
39 TARGET="_top"
40 >cross-compilation</A
41 >
42 environment, and compiled using the EGCS C++ compiler under BeOS.</P
43 ><P
44 >An introduction to SDL can be found online at:
45 <A
46 HREF="http://www.libsdl.org/intro/toc.html"
47 TARGET="_top"
48 >http://www.libsdl.org/intro/</A
49 >&#13;</P
50 ><P
51 >There are code examples on each of the main library pages, and there are
52 fully fleshed example C++ classes and programs in the examples archive,
53 available on the
54 <A
55 HREF="http://www.libsdl.org/download.html"
56 TARGET="_top"
57 >SDL download page</A
58 >.</P
59 ><P
60 >For an introduction to basic multi-media programming concepts, you might try
61 some of the following links:
62 <P
63 ></P
64 ><UL
65 ><LI
66 ><P
67 ><A
68 HREF="http://www.ziron.com/links/"
69 TARGET="_top"
70 >Game Programming Links</A
71 ></P
72 ></LI
73 ><LI
74 ><P
75 ><A
76 HREF="http://developer.dungeon-crawl.com/"
77 TARGET="_top"
78 >Game Developer Search Engine</A
79 ></P
80 ></LI
81 ></UL
82 ></P
83 ><P
84 >Enjoy!</P
85 ><P
86 >&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Sam Lantinga
87 <TT
88 CLASS="EMAIL"
89 >&#60;<A
90 HREF="mailto:slouken@libsdl.org"
91 ><A
92 HREF="mailto:slouken@libsdl.org"
93 TARGET="_top"
94 >slouken@libsdl.org</A
95 ></A
96 >&#62;</TT
97 ></P
98 >
99 <P>
100 <br><br><HR>
101 <H1>Table of Contents</H1>
102 <UL>
103 <LI><A HREF="html/index.html">Full Table of Contents</A></LI>
104 <LI><A HREF="html/guide.html">The SDL Guide</A></LI>
105 <LI><A HREF="html/reference.html">The SDL Reference</A></LI>
106 <UL>
107 <LI><A HREF="html/general.html">Initialization</A></LI>
108 <LI><A HREF="html/video.html">Video</A></LI>
109 <LI><A HREF="html/wm.html">Window Manager</A></LI>
110 <LI><A HREF="html/event.html">Event Handling</A></LI>
111 <LI><A HREF="html/joystick.html">Joystick</A></LI>
112 <LI><A HREF="html/audio.html">Audio</A></LI>
113 <LI><A HREF="html/cdrom.html">CDROM</A></LI>
114 <LI><A HREF="html/thread.html">Threads</A></LI>
115 <LI><A HREF="html/time.html">Timers</A></LI>
116 </UL>
117 </UL>
118 </DIV
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