gcc and graphics ?

[Ingo Krabbe]

Am Donnerstag, 10. Mai 2007 09:22 schrieb Walter Kasberg:
> Is there any addition which is easy to handle to plot simple grahics (lines
> and text) on screen from a gcc program.
> If possible it should not need an X-window since the final program has to
> run on a windows system. (Normally I am working on Mandriva linux).

Actually graphics is absolutely no topic for gcc.  It is "just" a compiler.

If you want to use graphics in your programs, running on windows, while 
possibly developing with linux you should look at GTK+ and Qt or wxWindows.

GTK+ is a C-API which knows about some abstract window management and graphic 
routines.  Qt and wxWindows are both C++.

All those libraries aren't that simple, but very capable.  As far as I can 
say, there is now really easy method to plot around on the screen, since 
systems like to have control over what the user sees on his screen, 
regardless of X-Windows or MS-Windows.

Of course there is a svgalib that can communicate with the graphics card 
directly, but I fear there is no way to have it working on Windows.



>
> Walter

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