SDL2-CS VS SDL_image

I'm building a mini game engine using SDL2-CS as a way to learn about things like P/Invoke. (I already have quite a bit of experience with C++ and SDL2)

Source: SDL2-CS

Download, build and add a reference to this SDL2 C# binding by @flibitijibibo: (https://github.com/flibitijibibo/SDL2-CS)

Is there a way for me to use SDL2 with OpenGL and C#? The SDL2 C# bindings I'm using don't seem to have bindings for the OpenGL commands. Honestly I just want a quick way to draw 2D primitives with fragment shaders (I don't need vertex shaders). I've worked with OpenTK, but it seems counterintuitive to mold it into a program where you wanna just make draw calls without worrying about Vertex Arrays. Is there any way for me to get access to fragment shaders in SDL2 with C#?

https://github.com/flibitijibibo/SDL2-CS for SDL

I'd recommend using an SDL2 wrapper for C# (possibly this one) and start building your system out piece by piece. You'll learn more from this attempt than any book, course, or existing game engine could ever teach you.

Hi. I wrote my own little game in python. Now I'd like to do the same in C# to learn the language. Pygame is a binding of SDL so I got interested in it. I googled and found two bindings of SDL for C#: https://github.com/flibitijibibo/SDL2-CS https://github.com/babelshift/SharpDL But I see in internet that SDL is very unpopular. Do somebody of you use SDL in C# for game developing? I prefer SDL over Unity or Monogame for now, because I'd like to program as low level as possible.

You will find the .lib files in this page.

if you want to use the functions from SDL2_Image download this and follow the previous step the same way: (https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL_image/releases/download/release-2.6.3/SDL2_image-devel-2.6.3-VC.zip)

Also I then went ahead and looked at the implementation of SDL_CreateTextureFromSurface(renderer, surface) from here (line 209)

Ran into a problem of my own making when pulling the SDL2 MINGW libraries SDL2 Dev, SDL Image, and so on. So... I decided, in my infinite wisdom, that I didn't want to go through each of the MINGW tarballs to find all the includes, libs, and DLLs. Yes, DLLs. Not only did I want to make sure that my future game code can be compiled on Linux, but that I can actually do some coding on my Windows machine.

SDL_image JPEG XL support request