The latest development version of SDL is available via Mercurial.

Mercurial allows you to get up-to-the-minute fixes and enhancements;

as a developer works on a source tree, you can use "hg" to mirror that

source tree instead of waiting for an official release. Please look

at the Mercurial website ( http://mercurial.selenic.com/ ) for more

information on using hg, where you can also download software for

Mac OS X, Windows, and Unix systems.

hg clone -u SDL-1.2 http://hg.libsdl.org/SDL

If you are building SDL with an IDE, you will need to copy the file

include/SDL_config.h.default to include/SDL_config.h before building.

If you are building SDL via configure, you will need to run autogen.sh

before running configure.

There is a web interface to the subversion repository at:

http://hg.libsdl.org/SDL/

There is an RSS feed available at that URL, for those that want to

track commits in real time.