SDL3 and ubuntu 25.04

I’m just starting to try it out with doker. Then I noticed that SDL3 has already made it into Ubuntu.

I simply tried apt install libsdl3-dev and was quite surprised, as I hadn’t expected it at all.

I also tried apt install libsdl3-ttf-dev and apt install libsdl3-image-dev

rtf, mixer, and net don’t work (yet).

That’s great!

It looks like it is not available yet in Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS as of today, but I look foreword to it when I do my next full distro-upgrade.

I see that there is current work being done in the SDL_Mixer github library, so I guess that will be packaged soon. Keep an eye out for Slouken posting something like: “Announcing SDL_Mixer 3 Official Release”.

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It’s in Ubuntu 25.04, not 24.04. It seems this is an Ubuntu that’s always up to date.

I see that there is current work being done in the SDL_Mixer github library, so I guess that will be packaged soon. Keep an eye out for Slouken posting something like: “Announcing SDL_Mixer 3 Official Release”.

That would be great, then all the important packages would be ready. SDL_net and SDL_rtf aren’t that important.