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I just want to say how amazing SDL2 is.
GameCodingNinja


Joined: 29 Aug 2014
Posts: 32
I first learned of SDL2 last year via a you tube video hosted by Ryan Gordon at Steam Dev Days.

I was so inspired, I have since been porting my DirectX game engine into an OpenGL/SDL2 engine. This also allowed me to redesign a few thing that didn't work out so well but I digress.

As you can imagine, I develop in Visual Studio on Windows. Just the other day for the first time, I compiled and ran my code on Linux. This was so easy, I almost fell over. It's been a euphoric moment for me as you can image. My code run the same on Windows and Linux.

On Linux I use NetBeans and CMake to compile my project. What's cool is that I can choose to develop my game on Windows or Linux. It makes no difference.