[flohofwoe]

GLFW+GL provides a portable way to do this though. Otherwise you'd need to mess with platform-specific window systems.

(something like minifb would be a more minimal option though: https://github.com/emoon/minifb)

[Narishma]

SDL is more than enough for something simple like this. You don't need to mess with OpenGL.

[weeber]

Yes with SDL Surfaces.

[krapp]

Textures would be better. Surfaces are raw data, but textures are optimized for the individual hardware.

[newnewpdro]

SDL2 is pretty popular these days