Getting Started on Grapics programming

[cdd]

Hi,

I was wondering if someone could help me out, i wanted to start doing some graphics programing in c++. Stuff like creating simple shapes and drawing fractals, but im not sure at all which graphics library i should be using or how to set it up. I heard of OpenGL but apparently openGL isnt something you can't just download?

Could some help point me in the right direction. Im using Kubuntu 11.04.

Thanks for the help.

[Athar]

What you need is SFML:
http://www.sfml-dev.org/

[cdd]

ok, ive downloaded SFML.

I have followed all of the steps on this page:

http://www.sfml-dev.org/tutorials/1.6/start-linux.php

up to typin in this:

g++ -o clock clock.o -lsfml-system 

into the terminal

the i try to run the clock by

./clock

but i get the error:

./clock: error while loading shared libraries: libsfml-system.so.1.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

any suggestions?

[Athar]

Did you build SFML yourself? Don't do that, unless you want to use the 2.0 version.
Rather, use the package manager and install the package libsfml-dev (edit: you'll need freeglut3-dev too).

[cdd]

nice that worked thanks!

Can you just explain what theses lines are actually doing:

g++ -c clock.cpp
g++ -o clock clock.o -lsfml-system

verses:

g++ -o clock clock.cpp which is what i normally do to compile a c++ program

thanks