Allegro VS tigr

Allegro (zlib/plain C) https://github.com/liballeg/allegro5

Some nutjob has taken control of https://liballeg.org to redirect it to some anti-Nazi page that mentions Kotaku, comparing them to nazis.

C, C++, Allegro, SDL, Some rudimentary SQL, Some basic BSD Sockets. But I also took some time to learn 3D math, trigonometry and linear algebra so I can include some basic 3D examples in my portfolio. I was later told that it was the 3D math that made the difference because if I (barely finished HS) can do that I can probably learn everything they give me.

Wow, DJGPP and Allegro (still going!), that takes me back - that and Bloodshed IDE were my weapons of choice back then!

liballeg.org

allegro 5 is quite alright with fonts

allegro5 is a great rendering library if you want to get something 2D on the screen fast

Hell, their website says in the first few sentences it isn't an engine.

A while ago I was getting started with the Allegro5 game engine (+Rust bindings). It's the same engine used for Factorio. I wrote a simple egui-integration to have nicer UI options. It was mostly for myself and is thus poorly documented but maybe you get some ideas how to make it work.

Here's a simple program using Allegro

TIGR

I think Tigr is probably the easiest plug-and-play solution. But if I don't need moving or interactive graphics, I usually just output SVG images (no library needed).

reminds me of TIGR, but simpler (but also without hardware acceleration/shaders, but also with sound)

Delighful, works at first try and the code looks well organized.

    git clone https://github.com/erkkah/tigr.git

In addition to the other options, you can look at small windowing libraries in other languages. For example TIGR has pretty straightforward Mac code using pure C (you'll need to have some understanding of the ObjC object model and the way it's exposed to C though).

I found TIGR to be the most pain-free way to just get graphics on the screen. It includes basic shape and font rendering.

I've found that the quickest and simplest solution to render graphics is Tigr.