kahowell/sdl2-cffi

Python CFFI wrapper for SDL2

sdl2-cffi

sdl2-cffi is a python cffi wrapper for SDL2.

Requirements

Windows wheels are published via C-I builds, so you should be able to install sdl2-cffi on Windows without needing build dependencies.

Building sdl2-cffi requires:

• SDL2 development package

  • On Windows, the SDL2_DEVEL_PATH environment variable needs to be set to the location the SDL2 SDK is installed.
  • On other platforms, sdl2-config is expected to work. This might mean other platforms don't work yet. (Pull request welcome).

• GCC (for C preprocessing)

  • On Windows, MinGW needs to be installed, and MINGW_PATH should be set if MinGW is installed to a location outside of C:\MinGW.

• pycparser

Why

• In contrast to https://pypi.python.org/pypi/PySDL2, sdl2-cffi uses CFFI instead of ctypes.
• In contrast to https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pysdl2-cffi, sdl2-cffi is licensed under zlib instead of GPLv2.
• I wanted to experiment with CFFI. :-)

Licenses

• sdl2-cffi is licensed under the zlib license (same as SDL2).
• sdl2-cffi contains a copy of the OpenGL spec (which is licensed under the SGI Free Software License B) [see sdl2/gl.xml for more info].