diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/SDL/find-headers.patch b/pkgs/by-name/sd/SDL1/find-headers.patch
similarity index 100%
rename from pkgs/development/libraries/SDL/find-headers.patch
rename to pkgs/by-name/sd/SDL1/find-headers.patch
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/SDL/default.nix b/pkgs/by-name/sd/SDL1/package.nix
similarity index 80%
rename from pkgs/development/libraries/SDL/default.nix
rename to pkgs/by-name/sd/SDL1/package.nix
index 8038407090b43..94b7e03f6e246 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/SDL/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/sd/SDL1/package.nix
@@ -1,34 +1,50 @@
-{ lib, stdenv, config, fetchurl, fetchpatch, pkg-config, audiofile, libcap, libiconv
+{ lib
+, alsa-lib
+, audiofile
+, config
+, darwin
+, fetchpatch
+, fetchurl
+, libGL
+, libGLU
+, libICE
+, libXext
+, libXrandr
+, libcap
+, libiconv
+, libpulseaudio
+, pkg-config
+, stdenv
+# Boolean flags
+, alsaSupport ? stdenv.isLinux && !stdenv.hostPlatform.isAndroid
 , libGLSupported ? lib.meta.availableOn stdenv.hostPlatform libGL
-, openglSupport ? libGLSupported, libGL, libGLU
-, alsaSupport ? stdenv.isLinux && !stdenv.hostPlatform.isAndroid, alsa-lib
+, openglSupport ? libGLSupported
+, pulseaudioSupport ? config.pulseaudio or stdenv.isLinux && !stdenv.hostPlatform.isAndroid && lib.meta.availableOn stdenv.hostPlatform libpulseaudio
 , x11Support ? !stdenv.isCygwin && !stdenv.hostPlatform.isAndroid
-, libXext, libICE, libXrandr
-, pulseaudioSupport ? config.pulseaudio or stdenv.isLinux && !stdenv.hostPlatform.isAndroid && lib.meta.availableOn stdenv.hostPlatform libpulseaudio, libpulseaudio
-, OpenGL, GLUT, CoreAudio, CoreServices, AudioUnit, Kernel, Cocoa
 }:
 
 # NOTE: When editing this expression see if the same change applies to
 # SDL2 expression too
 
 let
+  inherit (darwin.apple_sdk.frameworks) OpenGL CoreAudio CoreServices AudioUnit Kernel Cocoa GLUT;
   extraPropagatedBuildInputs = [ ]
     ++ lib.optionals x11Support [ libXext libICE libXrandr ]
-    ++ lib.optionals (openglSupport && stdenv.isLinux) [ libGL libGLU ]
+    ++ lib.optionals (openglSupport && stdenv.isLinux) [ libGL ]
+    # libGLU doesn’t work with Android's SDL
+    ++ lib.optionals (openglSupport && stdenv.isLinux && (!stdenv.hostPlatform.isAndroid)) [ libGLU ]
     ++ lib.optionals (openglSupport && stdenv.isDarwin) [ OpenGL GLUT ]
     ++ lib.optional alsaSupport alsa-lib
     ++ lib.optional pulseaudioSupport libpulseaudio
     ++ lib.optional stdenv.isDarwin Cocoa;
-  rpath = lib.makeLibraryPath extraPropagatedBuildInputs;
 in
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
   pname = "SDL";
   version = "1.2.15";
 
   src = fetchurl {
-    url    = "https://www.libsdl.org/release/${pname}-${version}.tar.gz";
-    sha256 = "005d993xcac8236fpvd1iawkz4wqjybkpn8dbwaliqz5jfkidlyn";
+    url = "https://www.libsdl.org/release/SDL-${finalAttrs.version}.tar.gz";
+    hash = "sha256-1tMWp5Pl40gVXw3ZO5eXmJM/uYqh7evMEIgp1kdKrQA=";
   };
 
   outputs = [ "out" "dev" ];
@@ -39,8 +55,9 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   propagatedBuildInputs = [ libiconv ] ++ extraPropagatedBuildInputs;
 
-  buildInputs = [ ]
-    ++ lib.optional (!stdenv.hostPlatform.isMinGW && alsaSupport) audiofile
+  buildInputs =
+    [ ]
+    ++ lib.optionals (!stdenv.hostPlatform.isMinGW && alsaSupport) [ audiofile ]
     ++ lib.optionals stdenv.isDarwin [ AudioUnit CoreAudio CoreServices Kernel OpenGL ];
 
   configureFlags = [
@@ -106,12 +123,16 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     })
   ];
 
+  enableParallelBuilding = true;
+
   postInstall = ''
     moveToOutput share/aclocal "$dev"
   '';
 
   # See the same place in the expression for SDL2
-  postFixup = ''
+  postFixup = let
+    rpath = lib.makeLibraryPath extraPropagatedBuildInputs;
+  in ''
     for lib in $out/lib/*.so* ; do
       if [[ -L "$lib" ]]; then
         patchelf --set-rpath "$(patchelf --print-rpath $lib):${rpath}" "$lib"
@@ -123,14 +144,12 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   passthru = { inherit openglSupport; };
 
-  enableParallelBuilding = true;
-
-  meta = with lib; {
+  meta = {
+    homepage = "http://www.libsdl.org/";
     description = "Cross-platform multimedia library";
+    license = lib.licenses.lgpl21;
     mainProgram = "sdl-config";
-    homepage    = "http://www.libsdl.org/";
-    maintainers = with maintainers; [ lovek323 ];
-    platforms   = platforms.unix;
-    license     = licenses.lgpl21;
+    maintainers = lib.teams.sdl.members ++ (with lib.maintainers; [ lovek323 ]);
+    platforms = lib.platforms.unix;
   };
-}
+})
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/SDL/setup-hook.sh b/pkgs/by-name/sd/SDL1/setup-hook.sh
similarity index 100%
rename from pkgs/development/libraries/SDL/setup-hook.sh
rename to pkgs/by-name/sd/SDL1/setup-hook.sh
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/SDL_compat/default.nix b/pkgs/by-name/sd/SDL_compat/package.nix
similarity index 58%
rename from pkgs/development/libraries/SDL_compat/default.nix
rename to pkgs/by-name/sd/SDL_compat/package.nix
index 4a5d54df0e3dc..a2ac5f6d2887d 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/SDL_compat/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/sd/SDL_compat/package.nix
@@ -1,62 +1,62 @@
 { lib
-, stdenv
-, fetchFromGitHub
-, cmake
-, pkg-config
 , SDL2
+, cmake
+, darwin
+, fetchFromGitHub
+, libGLU
 , libiconv
-, Cocoa
-, autoSignDarwinBinariesHook
 , mesa
+, pkg-config
+, stdenv
+# Boolean flags
 , libGLSupported ? lib.elem stdenv.hostPlatform.system mesa.meta.platforms
 , openglSupport ? libGLSupported
-, libGLU
 }:
 
 let
-  inherit (lib) optionals makeLibraryPath;
-
+  inherit (darwin.apple_sdk.frameworks) Cocoa;
+  inherit (darwin) autoSignDarwinBinariesHook;
 in
-stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
   pname = "SDL_compat";
   version = "1.2.68";
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "libsdl-org";
     repo = "sdl12-compat";
-    rev = "release-" + version;
+    rev = "release-" + finalAttrs.version;
     hash = "sha256-f2dl3L7/qoYNl4sjik1npcW/W09zsEumiV9jHuKnUmM=";
   };
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [ cmake pkg-config ]
-    ++ optionals (stdenv.isDarwin && stdenv.isAarch64) [ autoSignDarwinBinariesHook ];
+    ++ lib.optionals (stdenv.isDarwin && stdenv.isAarch64) [ autoSignDarwinBinariesHook ];
 
   propagatedBuildInputs = [ SDL2 ]
-    ++ optionals stdenv.hostPlatform.isDarwin [ libiconv Cocoa ]
-    ++ optionals openglSupport [ libGLU ];
+    ++ lib.optionals stdenv.hostPlatform.isDarwin [ libiconv Cocoa ]
+    ++ lib.optionals openglSupport [ libGLU ];
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
-  setupHook = ../SDL/setup-hook.sh;
+  setupHook = ./setup-hook.sh;
 
   postFixup = ''
     for lib in $out/lib/*${stdenv.hostPlatform.extensions.sharedLibrary}* ; do
       if [[ -L "$lib" ]]; then
         ${if stdenv.hostPlatform.isDarwin then ''
-          install_name_tool ${lib.strings.concatMapStrings (x: " -add_rpath ${makeLibraryPath [x]} ") propagatedBuildInputs} "$lib"
+          install_name_tool ${lib.strings.concatMapStrings (x: " -add_rpath ${lib.makeLibraryPath [x]} ") finalAttrs.propagatedBuildInputs} "$lib"
         '' else ''
-          patchelf --set-rpath "$(patchelf --print-rpath $lib):${makeLibraryPath propagatedBuildInputs}" "$lib"
+          patchelf --set-rpath "$(patchelf --print-rpath $lib):${lib.makeLibraryPath finalAttrs.propagatedBuildInputs}" "$lib"
         ''}
       fi
     done
   '';
 
-  meta = with lib; {
+  meta = {
+    homepage = "https://www.libsdl.org/";
     description = "Cross-platform multimedia library - build SDL 1.2 applications against 2.0";
+    license = lib.licenses.zlib;
     mainProgram = "sdl-config";
-    homepage = "https://www.libsdl.org/";
-    license = licenses.zlib;
-    maintainers = with maintainers; [ peterhoeg ];
-    platforms = platforms.all;
+    maintainers = lib.teams.sdl.members ++ (with lib.maintainers; [ peterhoeg ]);
+    platforms = lib.platforms.all;
   };
-}
+})
diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/sd/SDL_compat/setup-hook.sh b/pkgs/by-name/sd/SDL_compat/setup-hook.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..54a9b3e8bfab4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/sd/SDL_compat/setup-hook.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+addSDLPath () {
+  if [ -e "$1/include/SDL" ]; then
+    export SDL_PATH="${SDL_PATH-}${SDL_PATH:+ }$1/include/SDL"
+    # NB this doesn’t work with split dev packages because different packages
+    # will contain "include/SDL/" and "lib/" directories.
+    #
+    # However the SDL_LIB_PATH is consumed by SDL itself and serves to locate
+    # libraries like SDL_mixer, SDL_image, etc which are not split-package
+    # so the check above will only trigger on them.
+    if [ -e "$1/lib" ]; then
+      export SDL_LIB_PATH="${SDL_LIB_PATH-}${SDL_LIB_PATH:+ }-L$1/lib"
+    fi
+  fi
+}
+
+addEnvHooks "$hostOffset" addSDLPath
diff --git a/pkgs/games/rott/default.nix b/pkgs/games/rott/default.nix
index 534f14bcb289b..e678994e47f0f 100644
--- a/pkgs/games/rott/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/games/rott/default.nix
@@ -40,8 +40,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     "SHAREWARE=${if buildShareware then "1" else "0"}"
   ];
 
-  # when using SDL_compat instead of SDL_classic, SDL_mixer isn't correctly
-  # detected, but there is no harm just specifying it
+  # when using SDL_compat instead of SDL1, SDL_mixer isn't correctly detected,
+  # but there is no harm just specifying it
   env.NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE = toString [
     "-I${lib.getDev SDL_mixer}/include/SDL"
   ];
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
index dd4bc389b81ea..ab9843ac0e3dd 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
@@ -1371,6 +1371,7 @@ mapAliases ({
 
   ### S ###
 
+  SDL_classic = SDL1; # Added 2024-09-03
   s2n = s2n-tls; # Added 2021-03-03
   sandboxfs = throw "'sandboxfs' has been removed due to being unmaintained, consider using linux namespaces for sandboxing instead"; # Added 2024-06-06
   sane-backends-git = sane-backends; # Added 2021-02-19
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index b5ebfb6ac4cba..e8d5c39f9287c 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -23447,19 +23447,7 @@ with pkgs;
 
   scope-lite = callPackage ../development/libraries/scope-lite { };
 
-  SDL_classic = callPackage ../development/libraries/SDL ({
-    inherit (darwin.apple_sdk.frameworks) OpenGL CoreAudio CoreServices AudioUnit Kernel Cocoa GLUT;
-  } // lib.optionalAttrs stdenv.hostPlatform.isAndroid {
-    # libGLU doesn’t work with Android’s SDL
-    libGLU = null;
-  });
-
-  SDL_compat = callPackage ../development/libraries/SDL_compat {
-    inherit (darwin.apple_sdk.frameworks) Cocoa;
-    inherit (darwin) autoSignDarwinBinariesHook;
-  };
-
-  SDL = SDL_classic;
+  SDL = SDL1;
 
   SDL2 = callPackage ../development/libraries/SDL2 {
     inherit (darwin.apple_sdk.frameworks) AudioUnit Cocoa CoreAudio CoreServices ForceFeedback OpenGL;