emoon/minifb

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1348 stars · 106 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

MiniFB is a small cross-platform C library for creating a window and drawing raw 32-bit pixels into a framebuffer. It handles window creation, input events, and buffer presentation across Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android, and WebAssembly.

Use cases

• render pixels to a window in C
• create a framebuffer for software rendering
• prototype graphics or demoscene effects
• draw raw pixel buffers cross-platform
• build simple 2D games or emulators with direct pixel output
• display generated images in a native window

When to choose

• you need minimal dependencies and a tiny API for pixel-level rendering
• you want cross-platform window + framebuffer support from a single small library
• you are writing software renderers, emulators, or demos that write raw pixels

When to avoid

• you need GPU-accelerated 3D rendering or a full graphics engine
• you need rich UI widgets, text rendering, or high-level drawing primitives
• you require automatic pixel format conversion on non-32-bit displays

Facets

library · maturity active

graphics gui graphics cross-platform developer-tools windows wasm cross-platform cpp c framebuffer pixel-rendering software-rendering windowing c-library software-rasterizer game-development macos linux ios android

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