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[Snakey]

Yeah, for tools wxWidgets is a great C++ library.

I actually use it for building game engines as well as their tool set.

[AaronAardvark]

Mattias' Pixie Game Engine seems very clean and easy to use.  If you read his blog, you'll get an idea of what he's shooting for with it, and I wholeheartedly recommend it.

I'm in the process of porting it to Linux, but it's not there yet.

It's also public domain - which is totally awesome.

[hexageek]

Mattias' Pixie Game Engine seems very clean and easy to use.  If you read his blog, you'll get an idea of what he's shooting for with it, and I wholeheartedly recommend it.

I'm in the process of porting it to Linux, but it's not there yet.

It's also public domain - which is totally awesome.

considering that it uses directx, you can check winelib-dev d3d headers to see if they already implemented opengl wrappers for the parts you need

[gnat]

considering that it uses directx, you can check winelib-dev d3d headers to see if they already implemented opengl wrappers for the parts you need

That is a potentially awesome, certainly underutilized solution.

[hexageek]

considering that it uses directx, you can check winelib-dev d3d headers to see if they already implemented opengl wrappers for the parts you need

That is a potentially awesome, certainly underutilized solution.

wine team wants to port the d3d as a separate lib but so far no one did the job. I successfully ported few applications with it. some of them only took a recompile. but most of the time replacing the window and input handling helps a lot (which is really simple considering that SDL can be used almost on any project).

[Frog]

As far as I'm aware you can't do DirectX on a mac.

[hexageek]

As far as I'm aware you can't do DirectX on a mac.

linux can't either It's an opengl wrapper. I'm pretty sure there exist a wine port for mac.

[eddietree]

SDL. Simple, flexible, stable and the perfect solution for 2D games..

You can also bind with OpenGL if you want that 3D love.

[Shuger]

I also recommend SDL. It's not that hard and with many people using it, it's easy to find help. SDL_image allows you to load multiple image formats, which is usefull. It also makes using OpenGL a lot easier, which you may want to try later on. The only disadvantage i find is non-intuitive audio support.
As for sources:
Lazy Foo has all you need to get started.
And if you want to check some details or additionsal info:  reference pages