Wow, OK. I'm fairly adept with C++ and I want to download a graphics library, or at least find a tutorial to learn how to use C++'s built-in graphics commands, if it has any. I'm interested in learning how to make simple, 2D graphics like shapes and colors and whatnot. But it seems that whenever I browse through a site for such a type of library they always seem to say that I have to run "make" commands and download more stuff to get it to work on specific machines and I have to run commands on DOS.

Is it really that difficult? I'd imagine that I would need to do is stick a bunch of .h and .cpp files into the appropriate folders and the commands would be available.

I use Turbo C++ 4.5, an old but useful program, which I got from my computers teacher in high school. It lets me make and edit files, highlighting text in the current file and various other things - which I believe means it's an IDE. It also has a compiler built in. It is made by Borland International.