Nana c open source boost license a cross platform toolkit designed to enable modern c gui programming.
Embedded linux gui library.
µgfx is a lightweight embedded library for displays and touchscreens providing everything required to build a fully featured embedded gui.
The library is very small and fast because every unused feature is disabled and not linked into the finished binary.
In this blog post we will install electron on a colibri imx6 module run basic programs to evaluate the software and develop a basic gui using node js js html and css creating graphical interfaces for embedded linux with electron.
To facilitate embedded touchscreen gui designs optional support is provided for resistive and capacitive touch devices.
This is a list of library packages implementing a graphical user interface gui platform independent gui library pigui.
So i decided it was time to gain more knowledge about gui development on embedded linux.
Juce provides gui and widget set with the same look and feel in microsoft windows x window systems os x and android.
Light and versatile graphics library.
It is platform independent and can be easily ported to almost every micrcontroller system.
When it comes to embedded linux gui development there is lot of options available.
The whole module consist of two files.
The path i chose was the practical one.
I did some research and found that the most common libraries are qtopia also known as qt embedded and nano x formerly known as microwindows.
Gtkmm c version of gtk.
Open source gui libraries like qt x windows etc are readily runnable but unfortunately there are a bit heavy for many of the applications.
Glui a very small toolkit written with the glut library.
Sdl 1 2 optional ttf font or sdl2 no need for python or xwindows x11.
μgui is a free and open source graphic library for embedded systems.
In some cases it s best to rely on the tools provided by the board vendor e g.
There re over a dozen free and commercial solutions to build gui applications on embedded linux.
Touchgfx is bundled for free as part of the stm32 ecosystem but most libraries can be configured to support commonly available boards like the raspberry pi or arduino.
Rendering can be based on opengl.