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ok I''ve done a lot in win9x and dos... now I want to start programming(games mostly) in linux... I can get simple programs to run... but how do you do graphics sound networking ect? is there a good site for this(preferable) books ect?
Great Milenko
If you already know C then I just have to recommend "Beginning Linux
Programming (2nd Ed.)" by Stones and Matthew; Wrox Press. It teaches you
all sorts of stuff like how to program threads, network packets, X and
device drivers and loads more. It assumes you know C, but also teaches you
BASH scripting, Tcl/Tk, Perl and HTML. The book''s well written, easy to
follow and packed with examples. It''s also technical enough to use as a
reference for more experienced Linux programmers. So there.
There''s also a Sams Teach Yourself Linux Programming book, but it''s less
than half the page count of S&M2 (
) and isn''t much cheaper.
As for graphics and sound, a combination of SDL and OpenAL works really
well I believe. OpenAL''s at www.openal.org, and SDL''s lurking out there
somewhere - try Googling for it.
=> Arfa <=
Programming (2nd Ed.)" by Stones and Matthew; Wrox Press. It teaches you
all sorts of stuff like how to program threads, network packets, X and
device drivers and loads more. It assumes you know C, but also teaches you
BASH scripting, Tcl/Tk, Perl and HTML. The book''s well written, easy to
follow and packed with examples. It''s also technical enough to use as a
reference for more experienced Linux programmers. So there.
There''s also a Sams Teach Yourself Linux Programming book, but it''s less
than half the page count of S&M2 (
) and isn''t much cheaper.As for graphics and sound, a combination of SDL and OpenAL works really
well I believe. OpenAL''s at www.openal.org, and SDL''s lurking out there
somewhere - try Googling for it.
=> Arfa <=
What you want to do is to get the Mesa/Glut libraries and use them for graphics as for sound, I think OSS has their libraries available to hardcode sound functions in your programs and networking, all you need is your witts...
Anyhow, MESA & Glut are the ones that I uses for my graphical apps like mini games and stuff like that. They are the ones that resembles DX the most..
Cyberdrek
Headhunter Soft
DLC Multimedia
Two Guys Soft
Anyhow, MESA & Glut are the ones that I uses for my graphical apps like mini games and stuff like that. They are the ones that resembles DX the most..
Cyberdrek
Headhunter Soft
DLC Multimedia
Two Guys Soft
SDL is a good low level cross-platform library. It has 2D-graphics, sound, threads, CD-ROM. The newer version has OpenGL hooks.
It''s at http://www.devolution.com/~slouken/SDL/index.html
As for network programming, a good book is UNIX Network Programming, by W. Richard Stevens. But you probably don''t need anything that comprehensive to write games... (but it''s a good book to keep around in my opinion)
It''s at http://www.devolution.com/~slouken/SDL/index.html
As for network programming, a good book is UNIX Network Programming, by W. Richard Stevens. But you probably don''t need anything that comprehensive to write games... (but it''s a good book to keep around in my opinion)
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