Re: Graphics in C , I mean GnuC

[Andrew Agno <agno@AI.SRI.COM>]

dman writes:
 > On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 10:29:49PM +0530, shyamk@eth.net wrote:
 > | Is it possible to the same kind of graphics in GNU C as in Turbo C ?
 > | If yes please advice me.
 > 
 > "C" is a systems programming language and can not handle graphics
 > directly; it doesn't matter whether you are using Borland's "Turbo C"
 > compiler or the GNU C compiler, "gcc".  To handle graphics you need
 > some library (that could be written in C) that provides a C API to
 > manipulate the graphics.  There are such libraries available on Debian
 > systems, though I have not done any (programatic) graphics processing
 > myself.

I imagine you're looking for windowing toolkits.

You can look up stuff like:
  Gnome and GTK+
  KDE and QT
  
For 3D stuff, try:
  OpenGL
  SDL
  CrystalSpace

Andrew.