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SDL - Simple DirectMedia Layer Library

Boost is very appreciated.

https://www.libsdl.org

#FreeSoftware #CPP #GameDev #Library #Unity #Alternatives

"Simple DirectMedia Layer is a cross-platform development library designed to provide low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, and graphics hardware via OpenGL and Direct3D. It is used by video playback software, emulators, and popular games including Valve's award winning catalog and many Humble Bundle games.

SDL officially supports Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android. Support for other platforms may be found in the source code.

SDL is written in C, works natively with C++, and there are bindings available for several other languages, including C# and Python.

SDL 2.0 is distributed under the zlib license. This license allows you to use SDL freely in any software."

Source https://www.libsdl.org.

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Boost C++ Library

Boost (reshare) is very appreciated.

https://www.boost.org

#FreeSoftware #CPP #Library

"Why should an organization use Boost?

In a word, Productivity. Use of high-quality libraries like Boost speeds initial development, results in fewer bugs, reduces reinvention-of-the-wheel, and cuts long-term maintenance costs. And since Boost libraries tend to become de facto or de jure standards, many programmers are already familiar with them."

Source https://www.boost.org.

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FreeGlut - Free OpenGL Utility Toolkit

Boost is very appreciated.

https://freeglut.sourceforge.net

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#FreeSoftware #OpenGL #GLUT #Alternatives #GameDev #GCC

"freeglut is a free-software/open-source alternative to the OpenGL Utility Toolkit (GLUT) library. GLUT was originally written by Mark Kilgard to support the sample programs in the second edition OpenGL 'RedBook'. Since then, GLUT has been used in a wide variety of practical applications because it is simple, widely available and highly portable.

GLUT (and hence freeglut) takes care of all the system-specific chores required for creating windows, initializing OpenGL contexts, and handling input events, to allow for trully portable OpenGL programs.

freeglut is released under the X-Consortium license."

Source https://freeglut.sourceforge.net.

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Cairo - 2D Graphics Library

Boost is very appreciated.

https://www.cairographics.org

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#FreeSoftware #Library #Graphics #Development #LGPL #GCC

"Cairo is a 2D graphics library with support for multiple output devices. Currently supported output targets include the X Window System (via both Xlib and XCB), Quartz, Win32, image buffers, PostScript, PDF, and SVG file output.

Cairo is designed to produce consistent output on all output media while taking advantage of display hardware acceleration when available (eg. through the X Render Extension)."

Source https://www.cairographics.org.

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GTK - Gimp Toolkit

Boost is very appreciated.

https://www.gtk.org

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#FreeSoftware #GTK #GNU #Library #GUI #GIMP #GNOME #GCC #LGPL #CPP #JavaScript #Perl #Python #Rust #Vala

"Create apps that users just love

Offering a complete set of UI elements, GTK is suitable for projects ranging from small one-off tools to complete application suites.

Work with the language of your choice

Develop your GTK app with your language of choice by using Language Bindings or wrappers and take full advantage of the official GNOME bindings which guarantee API stability and time-based releases."

Source https://gtk.org.

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