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[nikki]

As a small vacation I decide to start learning C from http://c.learncodethehardway.org/book/, I was wondering though for graphical joy, and other game-relaed stuffs wich libs do you use ? Are SDL/Allegro still ok ? or are there better solutions ?

ps (i would like some convenience methods of using OGL if that makes sense)

[rivon]

SDL is great if you don't need rotations or scaling of sprites. For example for pixel art it's just great. Very easy to use and fast.
If you need rotations or scaling then SFML would be probably better.
By the way, why not learn C++?

[eigenbom]

SFML is a c++ lib, and I'm not sure there are many c only game libs, besides the ones you mentioned already. And that book looks pretty hardcore, good luck!

[Liosan]

SFML is a c++ lib, and I'm not sure there are many c only game libs, besides the ones you mentioned already. And that book looks pretty hardcore, good luck!

True, but SFML has C bindings - CSFML.

Liosan

[eigenbom]

oh cool

[indietom]

SDL is fast.

[impulse9]

Allegro is ok. Can be a tad slow but AllegroGL fixes that. All in all it's good enough for 2D games.

[ThemsAllTook]

GLUT is a good choice for learning, as long as you're OK with ditching it and moving on to something else when you want to write an app to release to other people.

[Xienen]

From what I've read, a couple of better alternatives to GLUT are FreeGLUT and GLFW.  I haven't used any of them, but I've seen them recommended in place of old school GLUT.

[Raptor85]

If you're mostly looking for window setup, input handling, sound handling and such and want to use Opengl for the actual rendering, SDL is a good choice for that, and SDL2 is even better as you can ask for a specific context version as well. (All the GL setup is taken care of for you in a cross-platfomer manner, after that you just use opengl code as you would normally)

[kamac]

GLUT is a good choice for learning, as long as you're OK with ditching it and moving on to something else when you want to write an app to release to other people.

From what I've read, a couple of better alternatives to GLUT are FreeGLUT and GLFW.  I haven't used any of them, but I've seen them recommended in place of old school GLUT.

I don't really know what's so good in GLUT for learning OpenGL. I think GLFW is equal if not better, since it doesn't force you to have stupid defined main loop functions, mouse click functions.. It's almost as stupid as event listeners in AS3 (I guess I have to get used to them, somebody had a purpose in creating them). Lately while looking at a huge project in AS3, I had a really hard time to see what is what because of all those listeners and callbacks everywhere.