SGDK is a free development kit allowing the development of software in C language for the Sega Mega Drive. It contains the development library itself (with the code sources) and some custom tools used to compile resources. SGDK uses the GCC compiler (m68k-elf target) and the libgcc to generate a ROM image. Binaries (GCC 6.3) are provided for Windows OS for convenience, but you need to install it by yourself for other operating systems. Note that SGDK also requires Java (custom tools require it), so you need to have Java installed on your system. SGDK library and custom tools are distributed under the MIT license (see license.txt file). GCC compiler and libgcc are under GNU license (GPL3) and any software build from it (as the SGDK library) is under the GCC runtime library exception license.
Features
- You can find a lot of tutorials online about SGDK
- A modern way to install it on any environement is to use Docker
- SGDK is completly free
- Random list of SGDK-powered games and demos
- Useful tools to help you creating assets
- SGDK comes with doxygen documentation