Thread: Need help starting with basic graphics (technial compiler related question)

BGI is a vendor-specific library from (originally) Borland. It is not available with non-Borland development environments.

With a bit of googling, you'll be able to find a couple of free emulations of BGI that work with MingW (the compiler packaged with Code::Blocks by default) - I've never used those personally, so can't comment on how good or bad they are.

Depends what you want to do, but you're probably better off using WxWidgets (which comes bundled with Code::Blocks depending on your choice of installation package, IIRC).

BGI was one of the first ever (it wasn't actually "the first ever" but it was pretty close) graphics libraries bundled with a C compiler, which is why it would show up with google. Similarly if you google for BGI tutorial.

Bear in mind that graphics (in any form) is not part of C at all, except as vendor-specific libraries (like BGI) or third-party extension (like BGI emulators, presumably). If you have your heart set on doing graphics, you're probably better off using something slightly more modern than BGI (BGI was great in its day, but its day was the same as MS-DOS 3 and Microsoft Windows version 1).