A Gentle Introduction into SDL 1.3

The main point here seems to be that you can make separate windows with SDL 1.3 and attach OpenGL contexts to them, versus SDL 1.2's approach of single-window-single-OpenGL-context.<p>As far as OpenGL tutorials go, I recommend "An intro to modern OpenGL" articles by Joe Groff [1]. It covers the things in OpenGL 2 that still exist in OpenGL ES 2.<p>[1]: <a href="http://duriansoftware.com/joe/An-intro-to-modern-OpenGL.-Table-of-Contents.html" rel="nofollow">http://duriansoftware.com/joe/An-intro-to-modern-OpenGL.-Tab...</a>

There are a couple of problems I ran into in the tutorial (or in my ability to follow the tutorial as a complete SDL/OGL newbie):<p>* GL_COLOR_BIT should be GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT. This may be a change which occurred between the version the author used and the version I pulled today.<p>* Doesn't really mention which OGL libraries are needed. Maybe cmake takes care of this. Since I used crusty ol' gmake, here's what my compiler invocation looked like:<p>gcc -std=c99 -Wall -L libs/sdl-1.3/local/lib -l SDL -l SDLmain -l GL -I libs/sdl-1.3/local/include/SDL -I include -o sdlapp src/main.c<p>It took quite a bit of Googling to get that -l GL line.<p>Still, provided a couple of hours' entertainment this afternoon. Thanks!

SDL 1.3 is like the Duke Nukem Forever of portable game-friendly libraries, I think.<p>Note: I mean this in a very friendly way, I have masses of respect for Sam Lantinga and all the other people behind SDL. It just seems they've been working on 1.3 for soo long.