1 The Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL for short) is a cross-platform library designed to make it easy to write multi-media software, such as games and emulators. 2 3 The Simple DirectMedia Layer library source code is available from: http://www.libsdl.org/ 4 5 This library is distributed under the terms of the GNU LGPL license: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/lesser.html