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sdl-1.2.15p12

cross-platform multimedia library

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Description

Simple DirectMedia Layer is a cross-platform multimedia library designed to provide fast access to the graphics framebuffer and audio device. It is used by MPEG playback software, emulators, and many popular games. Packages can be built with additional FLAVORs: aa: SDL built with ASCII art support. This FLAVOR requires the aalib package. no_x11: Built without X11.

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Ports path
devel/sdl
Package architecture
amd64
Maintainer
Thomas Frohwein <thfr@openbsd.org>
Categories
devel
Available flavors
aa, no_x11

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