Simple and Fast Multimedia Library

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Original author(s)	Laurent Gomila, and others
Developer(s)	SFML Team
Initial release	August 9, 2007; 16 years ago (2007-08-09)
Stable release	2.6.1 / November 4, 2023; 7 months ago (2023-11-04)
Repository	github.com/SFML/SFML
Written in	C++
Operating system	Linux, macOS, Windows, FreeBSD
Type	API
License	zlib License[1][2]
Website	www.sfml-dev.org

Simple and Fast Multimedia Library (SFML) is a cross-platform software development library designed to provide a simple application programming interface (API) to various multimedia components in computers. It is written in C++ with bindings available for Ada, C, Crystal, D, Euphoria, Go, Java, Julia, .NET, Nim, OCaml, Python, Ruby, and Rust.^[3] Experimental mobile ports were made available for Android and iOS with the release of SFML 2.2.^[4]

SFML handles creating and input to windows, and creating and managing OpenGL contexts. It also provides a graphics module for simple hardware acceleration of 2D computer graphics which includes text rendering using FreeType, an audio module that uses OpenAL and a networking module for basic Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and User Datagram Protocol (UDP) communication.

SFML is free and open-source software provided under the terms of the zlib/png license. It is available on Linux, macOS, Windows and FreeBSD.^[5][6] The first version v1.0 was released on 9 August 2007, and the latest version v2.6.1 was released on 4 November 2023.^[7]