The Linux graphics stack: Just learn all of, Xlib, Xorg, xcb, glx, mit-shm, Mesa, dri, dri2, dri3, opengl, Vulkan, Wayland, xwayland, weston, Cairo, GDK, and so on and so forth
(Yes I know these all mostly serve different purposes but all I want is to render a buffer of pixels)
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> but all I want is to render a buffer of pixels
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Drawing pixels on Windows:
#pragma comment(lib, "opengl32")
extern "C" void glDrawPixels(int width, int height, unsigned GL_RGBA_0x1908, unsigned GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE_0x1401, void * pixels);
int main() {
// Init OpenGL 1.4
glDrawPixels(width, height, 0x1908, 0x1401, pixels);
}
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I ended up deciding to use Cairo because it actually supports just writing RGB pixels to an image and rendering it cairographics.org/manual/cairo-I