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SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) bindings for the PHP language. The extension allows you to create multimedia desktop applications with windows, input handling, events, and more.

• C compiler
• Automake tools
• PHP8.1 devel
• libSDL2 devel libraries and headers
• UN*X OS (eg Linux, Macos)

pecl install sdl-beta

Then add

extension=sdl.so

to yourphp.ini file.

If you have no idea about your ini file position you can runphp -i | grep ini and see the list of you ini files.

The SDL extension mimics in almost every single aspect to the official C library, so until we write our own documentation, refer to theC counterpart.

Standard SDL2 API is available in procedural style:

$window =SDL_CreateWindow("Foo window",500,50,350,300,SDL_WINDOW_SHOWN+SDL_WINDOW_RESIZABLE);SDL_SetWindowTitle($window,"Some new title");SDL_DestroyWindow($window);

Complete examples can be found in theexamples folder.

• PHP-SDL_TTF
• PHP-SDL_Mixer
• PHP-SDL_Image
• PHP-OpenGL
• PHP-OpenAL

• CubeCraft
• Conway's game of life
• PhpOkoban
• Inphpinity
• PhPresent

To compile your new extension, you will have to execute the following steps:

phpize./configure [--with--sdl] makemaketestsudo make install