Are there any cross-platform GUI libraries out there?

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  • lvgl

    Embedded graphics library to create beautiful UIs for any MCU, MPU and display type.

  • imgui

  • If you have no aversions to using hardware acceleration and don't mind if the UI isn't native, you could use Dear ImGui. It makes creating a GUI easy and allows you to develop your application rapidly. It also has back-ends for all of the platforms that you mentioned.

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  • cimgui

    c-api for imgui (https://github.com/ocornut/imgui) Look at: https://github.com/cimgui for other widgets

  • Dear ImGui is a C++ library, however a C port exists.

  • SDL_gui

    GUI library for SDL2

  • Maybe something like SDL_gui was implied?

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