[Ilugc] Alternate Open library for graphics.h
- From: d_rosh2001@xxxxxxxxxxx (Roshan)
- Date: Tue Jan 22 23:24:11 2008
--- Dinesh Uthayakumar wrote:
I am aggressively promoting FOSS in my college.
Promote it for the right causes. :)
I want to know if there is an alternate open library
for graphics.h of
TurboC++ ?
Assuming, there's still a lot of *dos* based
(practicals in lab) and lack of knowledge about other
C compilers, TurboC++3.0 continues to haunt colleges.
TurboC++3.0 is *meant* for DOS, not WinDOWS. Enough of
rant, back to topic.
we need them for graphics lab !
There are two of them (listed below)
One was suggested by Pradeepto, long time ago, named
Allegro (
http://www.allegro.cc/ ;) when I had put this
query in GLUG-BOM. Thanks to him. :)
There are packages available for allegro under *buntu.
I assume, downloading and installing them isn't
difficult.
The advantage of allegro is that it is cross-platform.
So you could compile the library for Windows too, and
programs can be easily ported. :) (Oops, that reminds
me of something else too)
However, allegro is technically a game programming
library and may be too much for primitive graphics.
SECOND, is a very simple, low-level library, similar
to graphics.h in TC++3.0 is SVGALib. I have written an
introductory tutorial, for one to get started with
that library under *buntu. Here's the link to it:
http://db.glug-bom.org/wiki/index.php/Trivial_Graphics_Programming_with_GCC_and_Svgalib
Hope, you'll find at-least one useful.
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