gamedev_libraries VS sokol

Compare gamedev_libraries vs sokol and see what are their differences.

gamedev_libraries

A collection of open source c/c++ libraries for gamedev (by raizam)

sokol

minimal cross-platform standalone C headers (by floooh)
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gamedev_libraries

Posts with mentions or reviews of gamedev_libraries. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-28.

sokol

Posts with mentions or reviews of sokol. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-06.
  • STB: Single-file public domain libraries for C/C++
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Jan 2024
  • Container2wasm: Convert Containers to WASM Blobs
    16 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Jan 2024
    I'm using Dear ImGui for my cross-platform code (which includes running in browsers):

    - https://floooh.github.io/visual6502remix/

    - https://floooh.github.io/tiny8bit/c64-ui.html

    - (start these samples by clicking on the little "UI" icon) https://floooh.github.io/sokol-html5/

    Platform abstraction is handled through the sokol headers: https://github.com/floooh/sokol

  • New Vulkan Documentation Website
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Oct 2023
    I wonder if using your library (https://github.com/floooh/sokol) instead of OpenGL will alleviate some of these issues for newcomers! There's already a sokol port of the learnopengl.com code (https://github.com/GeertArien/learnopengl-examples), so it shouldn't be too hard to match between the tutorial articles and these.
  • Meta Releases Intermediate Graphics Library
    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Jul 2023
    If you're looking for something like this, Sokol is a much simpler alternative:

    https://github.com/floooh/sokol

    It doesn't support vulkan though, but if that's important to you you're probably much better off just using vulkan directly since it's supported on all the major platforms.

  • Why glibc 2.34 removed libpthread
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Jul 2023
    All I can do is give you a couple of Github ticket links where users of my libraries stumbled over the issue (and with different symptoms):

    - https://github.com/floooh/sokol/issues/376

    - https://github.com/floooh/sokol/issues/404

    - https://github.com/floooh/cimgui-sokol-starterkit/issues/6

    We then added a dummy call to a no-op pthread function, so that users can better figure out that they need to use -pthread because now they get a linker error instead of a runtime crash or hang. This has since reduced the 'support overhead' quite a bit:

    - https://github.com/floooh/sokol/pull/456

  • File for Divorce from LLVM
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Jun 2023
    My stuff for instance:

    https://github.com/floooh/sokol

    ...inspired by:

    https://github.com/nothings/stb

    But it's not so much about the build system, but requiring a separate C/C++ compiler toolchain (Rust needs this, Zig currently does not - unless the proposal is implemented).

  • Minimal cross-platform standalone C headers
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Jun 2023
  • How can i play .wav file with C ?
    1 project | /r/C_Programming | 1 Jun 2023
    I have never personally used it but I'm pretty sure sokol has an audio library that might be what you are after.
  • Website with Godot?
    3 projects | /r/godot | 11 May 2023
    And I asked floooh for similar thoughts on making a website with sokol here: https://github.com/floooh/sokol/issues/825
  • I want to talk about WebGPU
    15 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 May 2023
    It's not Rust and TS, instead C and JS, but Emscripten has a very nice way of integrating C/C++ and JS (you can just embed snippets of Javascript inside C/C++ source files), e.g. starting at this line, there's a couple of embedded Javascript functions which can be called like C functions directly from the "C side":

    https://github.com/floooh/sokol/blob/4535a3b4be59eb912e77e04...

What are some alternatives?

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raylib - A simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogames programming

MathGeoLib - A C++ library for linear algebra and geometry manipulation for computer graphics.

tinyrenderer - A brief computer graphics / rendering course

dds-ktx - Single header "no-allocation" KTX/DDS file reader

LearnOpenGL - Code repository of all OpenGL chapters from the book and its accompanying website https://learnopengl.com

JsonCpp - A C++ library for interacting with JSON.

v - Simple, fast, safe, compiled language for developing maintainable software. Compiles itself in <1s with zero library dependencies. Supports automatic C => V translation. https://vlang.io

sol2 - Sol3 (sol2 v3.0) - a C++ <-> Lua API wrapper with advanced features and top notch performance - is here, and it's great! Documentation:

nanovg - Antialiased 2D vector drawing library on top of OpenGL for UI and visualizations.