[Help] what's one of the easier ways to make a window on linux using x11 and nasm assembly?

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• excel@lemmy.megumin.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If you’re using assembly, then you’ve already given up on the easy ways.

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  • colonial@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    OP is definitely a masochist.

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• o11c@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  1, Don’t target X11 specifically these days. Yes a lot of people still use it or at least support it in a backward-compatible manner, but Wayland is only increasing.

  2, Don’t fear the use of libraries. SDL and GTK, being C-based, should both be feasible from assembly; at most you might want to build a C program that dumps constants (if -dM doesn’t suffice) and struct offsets (if you don’t want to hard-code them).

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• Jamie@jamie.moe ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This site has a bunch of samples in various programming languages for an X11 Hello World, including Assembly.

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• TootSweet@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If you do go X11 and want to go low-level, I’d recommend libxcb over libx11.

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  • o11c@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The problem with XCB is that it’s designed to be efficient, not easy. If you’re avoiding toolkits for some reason, “so what if I block the world” may be a reasonable tradeoff.

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