I’m working on a little side project where I need to do some simple, cross-platform game-like graphics. Really simple: I want to be able to draw some colored lines, and splat out rotated images. But I’d also like this to be reasonably efficient, and reasonable easy to use.
And, ideally, I’d love for something that was portable to Windows.
I’ve done just a bit of poking around, and it wasn’t quite clear to me what the right choice was.
- I looked at tsdl and tgls, but it wasn’t clear to me with either of them how to rotate a texture. Maybe I’m just missing something? Also, I found tgls a little hard to navigate, since I haven’t used opengl for 20 years. I feel like rotation has to be in there, but searching for “rotate” in the docs comes up empty, and I couldn’t find any good examples. The portability story here seemed hopeful.
- I looked at OCaml’s venerable Graphics library. Super easy to use, not sure about the portability story. No efficient way of rotating images, though.
- wall. Seems to have all the capabilities, not sure about the portability story.
- web. Portable, though I’d need to have a more complex setup for users, where the native OCaml program would run a web-server that would communicate to the OCaml UI, since I need this to be a native app. Feels extra complicated.
Anyway, does anyone have any suggestions on what path to take? Am I missing any options?
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