https://github.com/andrewrk/zig-window

window client library
https://github.com/andrewrk/zig-window

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window client library

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/andrewrk/zig-window
• Owner: andrewrk
• Created: 2018-06-09T05:04:33.000Z (over 6 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2022-01-20T21:22:05.000Z (almost 3 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-24T15:07:18.859Z (15 days ago)
• Topics: zig
• Language: C++
• Size: 1.03 MB
• Stars: 117
• Watchers: 20
• Forks: 13
• Open Issues: 8
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md

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README

        
# zig-window

## My Vision

A window client library. It gives you an API for creating windows, possibly

fullscreen, a graphics context, and events associated with the windows, such

as mouse and keyboard input.

 * No dependency on libc or any C libraries

 * Cross platform:

   * X11

   * Windows

   * MacOS

   * Wayland

 * Graphics contexts:

   * Vulkan

   * DirectX

   * Metal

   * OpenGL

## Current Status

It's a proof-of-concept of a Vulkan "Hello World" triangle, whose binaries

are portable across different Linux distributions, even ones that have

nonstandard dynamic linkers.

"how it works" writeup is TODO.

### Building

Tested with Zig 0.7.0+479f259ea.

```

zig build -Dtarget=x86_64-linux

patchelf  --remove-needed libdummy.so.0 zig-cache/bin/static-window

./zig-cache/bin/static-window

```

The `-Dtarget` parameter is important if you want to put the binary up for

downloading - this makes Zig target the "baseline" CPU instead of using

the fancy cool features of your native CPU.

This should work just fine on other CPU architectures though; for example you

could change `x86_64` to `aarch64` for 64-bit ARM.

Removing the external dependency on `patchelf` is TODO.

Reported to work on these systems so far:

 * Ubuntu

 * Debian

 * NixOS

 * Arch Linux

 * clearlinux

 * glibc-based void linux

 * musl-based void linux

Please file an issue if you find that `vkcube` from your package manager works

but binaries produced by this project do not.