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SFML — Simple and Fast Multimedia Library
SFML is a simple, fast, cross-platform and object-oriented multimedia API. It provides access to windowing, graphics, audio and network. It is written in C++, and has bindings for various languages such as C, .Net, Ruby, Python.
Authors
- Laurent Gomila (laurent@sfml-dev.org)
- Marco Antognini (hiura@sfml-dev.org)
- binary1248 (binary1248@hotmail.com)
- Lukas Dürrenberger (eXpl0it3r@sfml-dev.org)
- Jonathan De Wachter (dewachter.jonathan@gmail.com)
- Jan Haller (bromeon@sfml-dev.org)
- Mario Liebisch (mario@sfml-dev.org)
- Stefan Schindler (tank@sfml-dev.org)
- Artur Moreira (artturmoreira@gmail.com)
- Vittorio Romeo (vittorioromeo@sfml-dev.org)
- And many other members of the SFML community
Download
You can get the latest official release on SFML's website. You can also get the current development version from the Git repository.
Install
Follow the instructions of the tutorials, there is one for each platform/compiler that SFML supports.
Learn
There are several places to learn SFML:
- The official tutorials
- The online API documentation
- The community wiki
Community
Here are some useful community links:
Contribute
SFML is an open-source project, and it needs your help to go on growing and improving. If you want to get involved and suggest some additional features, file a bug report or submit a patch, please have a look at the contribution guidelines.
License
The SFML libraries and source code are distributed under the zlib/libpng license. See license.md. External libraries used by SFML are distributed under their own licenses.
In short, SFML is free for any use (commercial or personal, proprietary or open-source). You can use SFML in your project without any restriction. You can even omit to mention that you use SFML -- although it would be appreciated.
External libraries used by SFML
- OpenAL-Soft is under the LGPL license
- stb_image and stb_image_write are public domain
- freetype is under the FreeType license or the GPL license
- libogg is under the BSD license
- libvorbis is under the BSD license
- libflac is under the BSD license
- minimp3 is under the CC0 license