Best way to write a cross-platform graphical program in C while using only bare minimum third-party libraries?

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  • microui

    A tiny immediate-mode UI library

  • pixeltoaster

    PixelToaster is a framebuffer library for C++

  • SDL would be fine since it only uses the bits it needs , but there is https://github.com/thedmd/pixeltoaster it's c++ based but you can interface it to C and its basically a framebuffer, previous versions being openptc/tinyptc.

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  • minifb

    MiniFB is a small cross platform library to create a frame buffer that you can draw pixels in

  • MiniFB maybe?

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