Porting windows.h code to Linux ?

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So, how does one code these methods/functions in Linux ?

C++

void drawengine::gotoxy(int x, int y)
{
	COORD pos;

	pos.X = x;
	pos.Y = y;

	SetConsoleCursorPosition(GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE), pos);
}

void drawengine::setcursor(bool visible)
{
	CONSOLE_CURSOR_INFO ccinfo;

	ccinfo.dwSize = 1;
	ccinfo.bVisible = visible;

	SetConsoleCursorInfo(GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE), &ccinfo);
}

void drawengine::consolesize(int x, int y)
{
	SMALL_RECT windowSize = {0, 0, x, y};
	
	SetConsoleWindowInfo(GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE), TRUE, &windowSize);
}

void drawengine::fullscreen()
{
	SetConsoleDisplayMode(GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE), CONSOLE_FULLSCREEN_MODE, 0);
}

EDIT:
I'm sorry, I didn't explain well. I am aware that these functions only work on a windows environment. I am asking for an alternative and not how to make these Win32 API calls work on Linux. Matthew Faithfull mentioned NCurses, can someone give a simple implementation? or provide a link to a clear tutorial?

Thank you.

Posted 17-Mar-13 15:37pm

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Updated 18-Mar-13 5:25am

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Richard MacCutchan 18-Mar-13 12:16pm

Google will find you lots of tutorials on programming for Linux, using curses or GTK.

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Matthew Faithfull · Accepted Answer · 2013-03-17T22:50:00

The simple answer is that you can't but that's not quite the whole story.

If you want to continue to use Win32 API calls like SetConsoleDisplayMode then you're going to need a Linux implementation of Win32. The best known of these is 'Wine Is Not an Emulator'[^]. This will give you what you need.

Another alternative is to change your code ( assuming it's all console based ) to use the NCurses library. This does all the Console realted stuff you could want and is part of the Linux Standard Base ( i.e. available in every distro ). It's also available on Windows as PDCurses ( Public Domain Curses ). Using this approach would give you extremely portable code that could be built for almost anything from Android to Windows to OSX.