A Simple, 2d cross-platform graphics library for c or c++? [closed]

Answer 1

Am I missing something to wonder why noone suggests OpenGL? To use it for 2d would be very simple. The OP only wants to color a pixel. It doesn't get simpler than glBegin/glColor/glVertex/glEnd.

Answer 2

Heavy-weight:

• GTK
• QT
• WxWidgets

Lightweight:

• FLTK
• Fox
• Tk
• Lua IUP
• Ultimate++
• dlib

Drawing frameworks without GUI widgets:

• SDL
• Cairo

Answer 3

I would recommend DISLIN. It's cross platform, has support for many languages, and has very intuitive naming of routines.

Also, just noticed that nobody mentioned PLPLOT, also cross platform, multi lingual ...