krig / go-sdl2

Go bindings for SDL 2.0

Introduction

This a fork of Go-SDL2 which supports SDL version 2.0 in a slightly different way from the version of which this is a fork. That version, in turn, forked Go-SDL to add SDL version 2.0 support.

The SDL2 support is still very much work in progress! It is, in fact, completely broken right now.

Differences from scottfergs library are:

• No mutex handling.

• No custom event loop adaptation to use a goroutine and channel: Catch events in the same way as using the C API directly.

• Remove the audio/ submodule since the file headers have dubious licensing terms (and it probably doesn't work for SDL2).

• Import paths are "github.com/krig/Go-SDL2/..."

Differences from Banthar's original library are:

• SDL functions (except for SDL-mixer) can be safely called from concurrently running goroutines

• All SDL events are delivered via a Go channel

• Support for low-level SDL sound functions

• Can be installed in parallel to Banthar's Go-SDL

• The import paths are "github.com/scottferg/Go-SDL2/..."

Installation

Make sure you have SDL2, SDL2-image, SDL2-mixer and SDL2-ttf (all in -dev version).

Installing libraries and examples:

go get -v github.com/krig/Go-SDL2/sdl

Credits

Music to test SDL2-mixer is by Kevin MacLeod.