minigraphics is a small single-header library for drawing primitive shapes and text, providing a simple abstraction layer over multiple platforms (kind of like a smaller, more barebones SDL).

current features include:

• X11 and Wayland backends
• SDL-like event handling loop
• drawing from a memory buffer
• drawing pixels/lines/triangles/rectangles/circles, both filled and outlined
• drawing ASCII text in an 8x8 bitmap font

minigraphics provides two versions: a "small" one that can only draw things from a memory buffer, and a "regular" one that additionally provides an interface to draw shapes and text.

license

your choice between MIT/public domain, see the header for more info.

docs

the main documentation is located in the header (small edition) itself as comments; you might also want to see the example programs.

dependencies

• POSIX.1-2001 or later compliant standard C library
• libxkbcommon
• libX11 (X11 backend only)
• libwayland + wayland-protocols (Wayland backend only)
• POSIX.1-2001 or later compliant standard realtime library (-lrt) (Wayland backend only)

goals

• simple / easy to use API
• small C89-compatible codebase
• allow the same code to work on different backends with no modifications

non-goals

• high performance / usage in places where performance is highly important
• hardware acceleration, etc.

todo

• linux framebuffer backend
• use frame callbacks on wayland
• windows GDI backend (maybe?)