Date: Sat, 18 Jul 1998 12:13:19 +0200 (WET) From: Andris Pavenis To: "Roger H." cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: LIBGRX graphics library??? In-Reply-To: <6opcrc$tmo$1@slave3.aa.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Precedence: bulk On Fri, 17 Jul 1998, Roger H. wrote: > You can find the grx23 graphics library at : > http://www.simtel.iif.hu/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2tk/. I find allegro to > be a better graphics library though especially since there are tutorials > available for allegro, but I have yet to find any for the grx23 library. > Maybe. If You are developing software for MS-DOS only (including DOS sessions under Windows). AFAIK Linux and X11 ports of Allegro is still very far from being complete however I didn't tried this. GRX-2.3 is tested on much more systems. For example it took me about 2 hours to get it working under X11 on RS6000 (operating system AIX-4.1) which was not mentioned as supported system. I even saw the same problems I had in Linux X11 version. There are several things that are better in latest versions GRX: - more operating systems supported. - possibility to use Borland BGI graphic API with additional library (bcc2grx.zip) in the same systems where GRX works. I heard there is something like for this also for Allegro but I also didn't tried this. Of course there are also places where Allegro is better: - faster graphics - better documentation (which is very outdated for GRX) Perhaps both lists are far from being complete. I myself am often using the same sources for both DJGPP and Linux (and had earlier rather big experience with BGI interface) so I'm choosing GRX. > > > Einar <"eincar"@[EINAR]vip.cybercity.dk> wrote in message > <6oo3t8$lid$1 AT news DOT cybercity DOT dk>... > >Thanks for a great programme and a helpful newsgroup. > > > >I'm trying to learn to make programmes in c/c++ and it's not a small > >matter (I've learned :), but I've run into a small problem, now that I > >wanted to venture into the wonderful world of graphics. > > > >I've downloaded and installed the GRX22, BCC2GRX but I cant find the > >LIBGRX graphics library, that is being talked about in the BCC2GRX > >readme file. It was old version of GRX. You can use libgrx20 from GRX-2.3 (build it at first). Simply make libgrx20.a and corresponding include files available and there should be no problems to build libbcc2.a and test examples. > > > >I've tried to look for it at the Delorie homepage but without any luck > >so far, so I would greatly appreciate it, if someone would give me some > >pointers, as to where to find this library. > > http://www.gnu.de/software/GRX/ http://www.techfak.uni-kiel.de/~hsc/BCC2GRX/ Andris