How I can get and use the header file graphics h in my C program

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I have been searching to get the source code of the header file  lt graphics h gt  and its associated library in order to integrate it with my C   program   At the same time  I am interested in those cross-platform libraries that works on more than one compiler  Just to be more explicit  I am talking about those libraries that are used for drawing shapes  lines  and curves in C

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lt graphics h gt  is very old library  It s better to use something that is new  Here are some 2D libraries  platform independent  for C C    SDL  GTK   Qt  Also there is a free very powerful 3D open source graphics library for C    OGRE

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graphics h appears to something once bundled with Borland and or Turbo C    in the 90 s  http   www daniweb com software-development cpp threads 17709 88149 post88149 It s unlikely that you will find any support for that file with modern compiler  For other graphics libraries check the list of  quot related quot  questions  questions related to this one   E g    quot A Simple  2d cross-platform graphics library for c or c    quot

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There is a modern port for this Turbo C graphics interface  it s called WinBGIM  which emulates BGI graphics under MinGW GCC    I haven t it tried but it looks promising  For example initgraph creates a window  and from this point you can draw into that window using the good old functions  at the end closegraph deletes the window  It also has some more advanced extensions  eg  mouse handling and double buffering    When I first moved from DOS programming to Windows I didn t have internet  and I begged for something simple like this  But at the end I had to learn how to create windows and how to handle events and use device contexts from the offline help of the Windows SDK

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lt graphics h gt  is not a standard header   Most commonly it refers to the header for Borland s BGI API for DOS and is antiquated at best   However it is nicely simple  there is a Win32 implementation of the BGI interface called WinBGIm   It is implemented using Win32 GDI calls - the lowest level Windows graphics interface   As it is provided as source code  it is perhaps a simple way of understanding how GDI works   WinBGIm however is by no means cross-platform   If all you want are simple graphics primitives  most of the higher level GUI libraries such as wxWidgets and Qt support that too   There are simpler libraries suggested in the possible duplicate answers mentioned in the comments

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