Cross-platform drawing library

Question

I\'ve been looking for a good cross-platform 2D drawing library that can be called from C++ and can be used to draw some fairly simple geometry; lines, rectangles, circles,

Answer 1

Antigrain does high quality primitive rendering and seems to be able to render true type fonts and has a commercial license available upon request.

http://www.antigrain.com/

Answer 2

Use SDL

Answer 3

OpenGL?

Answer 4

Have a look at SFML. It's open source but the license is very permissive.

Drawing simple shapes
Displaying text

Answer 5

Have you tried FLTK? It is lightweight, cross-platform, has support for 2D/3D graphics and comes with a good widget set (including a charting component). The API is simple and straight forward.