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• Has pre-generated bindings files for major platforms
  • win32-msvc-x8664, linux-x8664, linux-arm32 (rpi3), mac-x86_64,
  • You can build with either the use_bindgen_bin or use_bindgen_lib features to make your own bindings if you need to. PRs are accepted if you generate bindings for a new platform!
• Performs static linking to SDL2 by default, with the Dynamic API enabled.
  • There is a dynamic_link cargo feature if you really want.
• Does not attempt to automatically set up SDL2 itself on non-Windows platforms.
  • On win32-msvc-x86_64 there are provided build artifacts for both a static link and dynamic link build.
  • On Mac you should use Homebrew: brew install sdl2
  • On Linux you should install SDL2-2.0.9 or later using any desired method. This version is not currently available in many package managers, so you might have to build from source. There's a shell script that I use for the CI builds, if you'd like to use that.
  • Non-Windows platforms require sdl2-config to be in the PATH during the build to get the proper linking info, but this is part of a normal SDL2 install on both macOS and Linux so it shouldn't be a problem.
• The whole crate is no_std of course.
• The bindings use libc for the C type declarations.

Major Differences From sdl2-sys

• Static linking by default (cargo feature for dynamic_link)
• Bindings use "scoped constants" instead of "rustified enums".
• The build.rs file is simple and easy to understand.

Additional Warning

This crate is essentially "for internal use", to build Rust abstractions on top of.

beryllium is the crate with the safe wrapper layer.

License

This crate uses the Zlib license, the same license that SDL2 itself uses.

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