SFML — Simple and Fast Multimedia Library

SFML is a simple, fast, cross-platform and object-oriented multimedia API. It provides access to windowing, graphics, audio and network. It is written in C++ and has bindings for various languages such as C, .Net, Ruby, Python.

State of Development

Development is focused on version 3 in the master branch. No more features are planned for the 2.x release series.

CMake Template

The easiest way to get started with SFML is our CMake-based project template. This template will automatically download and build SFML alongside your own application. Read the README for full instructions on how to use it.

Download

• You can get the latest official release on SFML's website.
• You can also get the source code of the current development version from the Git repository.
• Alternatively, you can get the latest snapshot / artifact builds from the artifacts storage.

Install

Follow the instructions of the tutorials, there is one for each platform/compiler that SFML supports.

Learn

There are several places to learn SFML:

• The official tutorials
• The online API documentation
• The community wiki

Community

Here are some useful community links:

• Discord
• Twitter
• Forum (French)

Contribute

SFML is an open-source project, and it needs your help to go on growing and improving. If you want to get involved and suggest some additional features, file a bug report or submit a patch, please have a look at the contribution guidelines.

Authors

• Laurent Gomila (laurent@sfml-dev.org)
• Marco Antognini (hiura@sfml-dev.org)
• binary1248 (binary1248@hotmail.com)
• Lukas Dürrenberger (eXpl0it3r@sfml-dev.org)
• Jonathan De Wachter (dewachter.jonathan@gmail.com)
• Jan Haller (bromeon@sfml-dev.org)
• Mario Liebisch (mario@sfml-dev.org)
• Stefan Schindler (tank@sfml-dev.org)
• Artur Moreira (artturmoreira@gmail.com)
• Vittorio Romeo (vittorioromeo@sfml-dev.org)
• Chris Thrasher (thrasher@sfml-dev.org)
• And many other members of the SFML community

License

The SFML libraries and source code are distributed under the zlib/libpng license. See license.md. External libraries used by SFML are distributed under their own licenses.

In short, SFML is free for any use (commercial or personal, proprietary or open-source). You can use SFML in your project without any restriction. You can even omit to mention that you use SFML -- although it would be appreciated.

External libraries used by SFML

• stb_image and stb_image_write are public domain
• freetype is under the FreeType license or the GPL license
• libogg is under the BSD license
• libvorbis is under the BSD license
• libflac is under the BSD license
• dr_mp3 is public domain or under the MIT No Attribution license
• miniaudio is public domain or under the MIT No Attribution license
• cpp-unicodelib is under the MIT license
• HarfBuzz is under the Old MIT license
• SheenBidi is under the Apache license
• qoi is under the MIT license
• Mbed TLS is under the Apache license or the GPL license
• wepoll is under the BSD license
• libssh2 is under the BSD license