Man page - sdl_createsoftwarerenderer(3)

Packages contains this manual

Package: libsdl3-doc
apt-get install libsdl3-doc

Documentations in package:

SDL_CreateSoftwareRenderer - Create a 2D software rendering context for a surface.

Defined in SDL3/SDL_render.h

#include "SDL3/SDL.h"

SDL_Renderer * SDL_CreateSoftwareRenderer(SDL_Surface *surface);

Two other API which can be used to create SDL_Renderer :

SDL_CreateRenderer () and

SDL_CreateWindowAndRenderer (). These can _also_ create a software renderer, but they are intended to be used with an

SDL_Window
as the final destination and not an

SDL_Surface .

surface

the SDL_Surface
structure representing the surface where rendering is done.

( SDL_Renderer
*) Returns a valid rendering context or NULL if there was an error; call SDL_GetError () for more information.

This function should only be called on the main thread.

This function is available since SDL 3.2.0.