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[shibbythestoner]

Hey guys

I was wondering if there's a similar way of coding API the way you can with windows.h on Windows, but in Linux. Not to say I know much beyond things like MessageBox(), Sleep(), Beep(), FreeConsole(), and other simple windows.h functions, but it'd be nice to know ways to implement these in Linux.
I'll be greatful for any suggestions.

[v0id]

Linux has both a Linux API, and a Linux Kernel API.

To make GUI-stuff in Linux you need a GUI toolkit, though. But don't worry, there's a lot of nice GUI toolkits, like wxWidgets, Qt and GTK+.

[shibbythestoner]

Thanks very much, v0id!

[yulin11]

Yes, i think so.


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[G_Morgan]

Basically I'd say you should look towards Posix (which is the Unix standard which Linux supports) and Gtk+. Qt is a fine toolkit but has licensing issues. If you want to use Qt your work must be released in a GPLv2 compatible way or you must buy a proprietary license. Gtk+ isn't as good but is LGPL so you can do your work in whatever license you want provided you dynamically link (which is likely) as opposed to statically link.

[upredsun]

you can reference GNU C book