Is there any EASY way to get text onto a surface in SDL? I've looked at this http://www.freepascal-meets-sdl.net/ but I find it a bit too, uhh, complicated for what I want to achieve (but i do understand it). I have also fiddled around with SDL and let it spit out as many errors as I can take in one day. My main complaint is: I don't need the background colour, and do you have to load a font from hd? I want to make it cross-platform and I doubt you find fonts at C:\Windows on a linux machine.

And if there is no really easy way, can I use wingraph/graph to do so instead and have it work on the same screen/surface?

Any help would be veeeery nice please...