How to install sdl3 library?

Sze · March 27, 2025, 12:08am

You don’t need to add a module import, that was before I saw how the breakout example just uses @cImport, I think you can continue with this:

Or you can do what

github.com/castholm/zig-examples

breakout/main.zig

master

// © 2024 Carl Åstholm
// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT

const std = @import("std");

pub const std_options: std.Options = .{
    .log_level = .debug,
};

const c = @cImport({
    @cDefine("SDL_DISABLE_OLD_NAMES", {});
    @cInclude("SDL3/SDL.h");
    @cInclude("SDL3/SDL_revision.h");
    // For programs that provide their own entry points instead of relying on SDL's main function
    // macro magic, 'SDL_MAIN_HANDLED' should be defined before including 'SDL_main.h'.
    @cDefine("SDL_MAIN_HANDLED", {});
    @cInclude("SDL3/SDL_main.h");
});

const sprites = struct {

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does and remove everything you don’t need.

I think that are basically two different styles of using the library.
The first is using callbacks and the breakout example is using a while loop.