I'm a newbie learning SDL and I feel quite helpless.

SDL Development
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Most of the installation and configuration tutorials for SDL available online are for SDL2. Are there any installation and configuration tutorials for SDL3?

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First two questions are what OS are you running and what languages do you use? There’s no harm learning SDL2 first

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Speaking as someone who’s recently been transitioning from SDL2 to SDL3, I can say that almost everything you learn about SDL2 is directly applicable to SDL3. A lot of symbols have been renamed, but otherwise they’re the same. (Maybe skip over audio tutorials though. The older sound model still works in SDL3, but the new stuff is easier to use.)

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I agree. I started on SDL 1.2, going from 1.2 to 2 wasn’t hard but SDL 2 to 3 was very easy

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This probably won’t affect the OP, but it’s worth noting that going from SDL2 to SDL3 is sometimes impossible. That is the case here, because I am reliant on the OpenGL ES 1.1 backend (my app uses the glLogicOp() function which isn’t in OpenGL ES 2.0) and support for that backend has been dropped in SDL3.