I am interested in learning SDL and intend to follow tutorials / experiment, but regardless of having searched the forums, official instructions, etc. I am having trouble figuring how I am meant to install SDL correctly on a mac.without Xcode. I understand that it is probably easier to use Xcode, but I would rather have the opportunity to build a more portable application if I happen to get far enough. Otherwise it might be better to switch to a Linux development environment. Would anyone know how to install SDL 2 on Mac OSX 10.9 for development outside the Xcode IDE?

(The current Xcode installed is 6.2-the latest on the particular system) So far I have found the following pages: but the discussions describe issues mid-way in the process or with respect to much older operating systems. This: in short, indicates that all I need to do is 'download the Development Library for OSX and copy it into /Library/Frameworks/.' (directly from the dmg? I thought that the dmg has only a package installer. How would I do this?) and then run something like. Code: g Main.cpp -o main -I/Library/Frameworks/SDL2.framework/Headers -framework SDL2 -framework Cocoa That discussion applies to Mac OSX 10.8 though, and a lot might have changed between mountain lion and mavericks.

Also, I see that the Cocoa framework is linked in the above example, which suggests that I'd still create a mac-only application. I am also wondering whether it would be possible to install SDL such that I could use.both. Xcode and makefiles / the command line or any other IDE.

Would I run the.dmg to install the libraries in the usual place with the installer? I am also interested in playing with openGL further in the future. I will be following SDL tutorials from here: Another option is to use an old version of code blocks (13), according to this: (is that a good option?) but the tutorial is for a newer version of the OS, and again, I am not sure whether this would work on mavericks.

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Code::blocks might be the better alternative if it works. In any case, I would appreciate any help with figuring the best way to proceed with installation and use; much of the documentation and many of the discussions refer to older OSes, so it would be good to have a confirmation that I am following the correct prodecure in the first place. Dominus wrote: I'm sure Honebrew provides instructions on how to completely remove it. I do recommend NOT combining self compiled libs (e.g.SDL2) with either package manager. Not with your current level of experience (don't get me wrong, there are just some pitfalls that you will probably encounter otherwise). But the instructions would stay the same. Can't help further with Homebrew, as I wrote, I'm not using it.

I don't see anything wrong with having another package manager, so I can go with macports since you know more about it. In this case, how do you go about using macports to install and set-up sdl then? (I already have macports installed and can also go ahead and install X11 if that is necessary. (Is it?)) I found this list: including libsdl2 2.0.5. Following what I see here. Quote: Right, I understand.

Xcode and the developer tools are installed, but I am not sure how to install SDL for use with a different environment. Based on the various discussions of Stackoverflow and the information I have, I don't quite understand what the procedure is. I know that the binaries are here: The basic instructions are here.

Which I don't quite understand. Compiling on Linux would require the following instruction: Code: gcc -o myprogram myprogram.c `sdl2-config -cflags -libs` But that is unlikely to work immediately on mac. This command from my post above seems to use the mac-specific cocoa, which is not desirable assuming this will keep the application mac-only: Code: g Main.cpp -o main -I/Library/Frameworks/SDL2.framework/Headers -framework SDL2 -framework Cocoa In short I am a little confused by the many ways to install the library and am not sure what I need to do so I can start using the library outside of the IDE provided with Xcode. Would you (or someone) who might know more about installation on Mac OSX please clarify the instructions? Thanks again. SDL mailing list.

A bit late to reply, but perhaps you will find the information below helpful once you're further into development and looking for a more sophisticated way to build from the command line on OSX (and elsewhere). Specifically, for macOS what I tend to do is creating a /usr/local directory and then installing all the dependencies like SDL there, by downloading their source packages and compiling them the usual way (I.e. Running./configure, make and make install). While this sometimes proved problematic 5 or 10 years ago, nowadays this normally works out of the box. The benefit of having all that stuff in /usr/local is that (a) it does not interfere with anything that comes with macOS, and (b) once it comes to create an application bundle, I know exactly which libraries to include in the bundle. When it comes to building my own project, I also use GNU autoconf as a build system, but frankly plain Makefiles or CMake or anything else will work more or less equally well. This part of my build is cross-platform, so the same commands work on Linux, macOS and Windows (using MSys2).

But on top of that, I have written a number of shell scripts that contain platform-specific steps of the build, such as the aforementioned App bundle creation on macOS, as well as building a disk image and codesigning for distribution. Feel free to have a look at the (brief) build instructions, and the macOS-specific scripts: Note that in my case there is the added complexity of having to build two projects and merge the outcome to get a working application. Normally a single script would be enough to fully create the App bundle. Kai On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 10:52 PM, Karl wrote.

SDL and OpenGL Author: Mark Szymczyk Last Update: September 19, 2012 This article provides an introduction to the Simple DirectMedia Library (SDL) and using it for OpenGL programs. Although I focus on using SDL with Mac OS X in the article, there is also a lot of good information for SDL developers on any platform.

Updates The Xcode setup instructions in the article no longer apply in Xcode 4. I added a link to my article to the HTML version of this article. (September 19, 2012) I removed the last three sentences of the first paragraph in the Setting Up SDL in Xcode section. SDL 1.2.14 removed the Project Builder templates so there was no need to explain the difference between the Xcode and Project Builder templates. SDL now has Xcode project templates for Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), 10.5 (Leopard), and 10.6 (Snow Leopard). (December 29, 2009) I revised the material on including the OpenGL header files. The new material makes it very clear that including SDLopengl.h is superior from a cross-platform perspective than including gl.h manually.

(December 4, 2007) The Mac OS X version of SDL 1.2.10 no longer includes an installer. The article has been updated to reflect that information. (June 9, 2006) SDL 1.2.10 has been released. The Mac OS X version supports universal binaries. You no longer have to download the SDL source and build the framework to create universal binaries that run on Intel and PowerPC Macs. (May 17, 2006) Introduction SDL is an open source library to handle the operating system dependent parts of game development.

It can handle things like creating a window, reading mouse, keyboard, and joystick input from the player, playing audio, and creating threads. SDL shines for writing games on multiple operating system. Suppose you wanted to write an OpenGL game that ran on Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. Without a library like SDL, you would have to learn the following technologies:. WGL, GLX, and either AGL or Cocoa OpenGL to create OpenGL windows.

DirectX for Windows audio and reading player input. QuickTime or Core Audio for Mac OS X audio. Either Carbon or Cocoa event handling to read the keyboard and mouse on Mac OS X. SDL saves you the hassle of having to become intimately familiar with the details of programming multiple operating systems. Learn SDL and your code can run on multiple operating systems in the time it takes to write a game for one operating system. SDL comes with functions for 2D graphics, but I’m going to be focusing on using SDL with OpenGL in this article.

2D drawing with OpenGL is faster than using SDL’s functions because OpenGL takes advantage of graphics hardware acceleration. Plus, OpenGL can be used for both 2D and 3D graphics, which makes OpenGL more versatile than SDL’s 2D drawing functions. (Setting Up SDL in Xcode).