TL;DR: What linux API should be used to render a game to the screen on the RG35XXH?

I'm trying to port a solitaire game to the RG35XXH. Currently I'm using GLFW to get a window on my laptop; however GLFW doesn't support running without an X11 or Wayland server running.

I looked into EGL, which worked, kind of. It can fetch an OpenGL ES context but it has no way to display the rendered framebuffer to the screen.

Most recently I looked into KMS + DRM. I found a repository with code explaining how to interface with the DRM, and got it working on my laptop, which is nice! However on the RG35XXH (with Batocera v40) there is no /dev/dri/ folder 😦 . I can only assume that this means Batocera doesn't use DRI/DRM/KMS at the moment.

Next I might try using a frame buffer device. Running cat /dev/urandom > /dev/fb0 fills the screen with random colors; so I should be able to implement rendering with it. However I don't know if this is the correct route to go.

Now, as I understand it, SDL2 is supposed to support rendering to these types of devices. I've been avoiding SDL2 as I would prefer to distribute the program as a single executable file, and its license makes that more difficult.

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Unfortunately the trip was planned by my parents and we've spent a lot of time in a car traveling to places. I don't mind pretty scenery, but multiple 6 hours days of car travel is boring. And really I wanted to see the urban design, not the country side.