You will have to do some translating, and I haven't gotten very far yet, but I have written a crate to allow you to work on top of SDL2, in Rust (which means cross-platformness), and it'll work very similarly to how it works on Windows in C.

https://github.com/GBGamer/handmade_hero

I started investigating Rust too: http://owensd.io/2015/01/09/handmade-hero---day-1.html.

I gave up on it when the SDL2 bindings were causing a bunch of issues. I haven't look at it since; maybe some of those are fixed now.

It's very easy now, you just use Cargo:

[dependencies]
sdl2 = "*"