C want to compile simple C graphics code.

[kpedersen]

Ah of course. How times have changed. Xlib was considered a "high level" API.

That said, if XCB is a little too low level for you, then you can have a middle ground by using XShmCreateImage instead of XCreateImage.

https://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.7/doc/xextproto/shm.html

It is pretty much a drop in replacement. I.e to this line:

https://github.com/osen/software-3d-renderer/blob/master/src/x11_platform/main.cpp#L48

 

[senenmut]

thank you. i see there are some directions to go.

 

[senenmut]

hello unitrunker,

yes your recommendation not to use Xlib direct makes sense.
the other ways such like XCB or even MOTIF that i am learning have methods of creating
drawings with very less code lines.

 

[Holger]

Very true. In some ways, I do feel it would be useful to be able to draw to the frame buffer rather than require Xorg but at the same time I don't know why I feel this... Obviously there isn't much of a requirement for it haha.

Drawing directly to the framebuffer is mostly used in embedded devices, when there is only a single graphical application running. The Qt toolkit supports this with quite some success. However, it is currently quite Linux-centric.