[ale] GGI, SDL, Mesa, Oh My!

[James P. Kinney III]

I would have to vote for SDL. It is not as technically awe-inspiring as
Mesa's OpenGL, but it was designed for game development. So was ClanLib.
I have had LOTS of compile problems with ClanLib. SDL is often shipped
now with many Distros so that adds another point in its favor. It also
has modules for sound.

SDL also seems to be very well supported. As there are a whole slew of
games using it (my 3 year old LOVES watching Defendguin!) it seems to be
also well recieved. 

On Fri, 2002-02-22 at 16:41, Cade Thacker wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestions on the earlier post. I have dug a little deeper
> and found this web site which gives a little blurb about a few SDKs.
> 
> http://www.larian.com/rat/sdkprojects2.html
> 
> So my question is, has anybody had any dealings with any of these. I am
> just writing a simple 2D game. I already have one vote for SDL. GGI also
> looks promising, but has anybody used it yet?  Sounds like I could us
> Mesa, but would that be overkill?
> 
> So here are the candidates, any one better than another:
> 
> GGI
> PTC
> ClanLib
> SDL
> (Insert your SDK here)
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> --cade
> 
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