DirectX style libraries for Linux

Schism · n00b Joined: 28 Jan 2005 Posts: 5 Location: South Africa

I'm quite new to Linux and (obviously) gentoo, but I'm quite interested in game development. Gaming is quite established on Windows and it's made easy because of DirectX.

I was just wondering if there are a set of libraries for Linux game (and other multimedia) development and if not would it be sensible to start such a project?

Naib · Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2005 5:53 pm Post subject:

openGL,
OpenAL,
LibSDL
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Q-collective · Advocate Joined: 22 Mar 2004 Posts: 2071

Linuxland has OpenGL.
Besides, WineHQ just started to intergrate the DirectX API (if you don't want to wait for that, there is Cedega).
Cheers

chunderbunny · Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2005 6:05 pm Post subject:

SDL is pretty good, it provides most of the functions you expect from DirectX except Direct3D. 3D stuff is handled by OpenGL.

Schism · n00b Joined: 28 Jan 2005 Posts: 5 Location: South Africa

Thanks, I'll take a look at it.

Roguelazer · Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2005 9:03 pm Post subject:

SDL's pretty good, but be forewarned that it does add a bit of a performance overhead. It's probably faster to write your own OpenGL display routines, use X to handle input and use ALSA (or OSS if you want to be annoying) for sound output.
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