sokol-zig
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sokol-zig
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Zig cookbook: collection of simple Zig programs that demonstrate good practices
Zig currently doesn't allow chained designators and also doesn't allow to partially initialize arrays and fill up the rest of the array with default values.
E.g. the closest Zig equivalent to this C99 code:
https://github.com/floooh/sokol-samples/blob/b3bc55c4411fa03...
...is this:
https://github.com/floooh/sokol-zig/blob/a4b3c287fadd153a504...
...note how part of the initialization had to be moved out into "code".
There's a ticket about this here, but it's currently not high-priority:
https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/6068
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Nim v2.0 Released
I maintain auto-generated bindings for my C libraries for Zig and Nim (and Odin and Rust - although the Rust bindings definitely need some love to make them a lot more idiomatic).
I think looking at the examples (which is essentially the same code in different languages) gives you a high level idea, but they only scratch the surface when it comes to language features (things like the Zig code not using comptime features):
Zig: https://github.com/floooh/sokol-zig/tree/master/src/examples
Nim: https://github.com/floooh/sokol-nim/tree/master/examples
Odin: https://github.com/floooh/sokol-odin/tree/main/examples
Rust: https://github.com/floooh/sokol-rust/tree/main/examples
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Zig Build System
IMHO you really need a programming language to describe a build, even when the result looks very declarative.
E.g. not sure how Meson handles this, but when I have a project with dozens of similar build targets and platform specific compile options, I really want to do the build description in a loop instead of a data tree.
(for example: https://github.com/floooh/sokol-zig/blob/3f978e58712f9eb029b...)
- Zig and WASM
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Mach v0.1 - cross-platform Zig graphics in ~60 seconds
Is this project comparable to the zig sokol project?https://github.com/floooh/sokol-zig
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How does zig magically cross compile without target shared libraries
I was rather amazed that I could cross-compile the zig-sokol examples https://github.com/floooh/sokol-zig for a Windows target on a Linux host (WSL Ubuntu). I simply set -target x86_64-windows and copied the executable into Windows and got a nice spinning cube displayed.
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Mach Engine: The Future of Graphics (With Zig)
(disclaimer: shameless plug) Here's another cross-platform alternative, auto-generated Zig bindings to the Sokol headers:
https://github.com/floooh/sokol-zig
This is quite a bit slimmer than using one of the WebGPU libraries like wgpu-rs or Dawn, because sokol-gfx doesn't need an integrated shader cross-compiler (instead translation from a common shader source to the backend-specific shader formats happens offline).
Eventually I'd also like to support the Android, iOS and WASM backends from Zig (currently this only works from C/C++, for instance here are the WASM demos: https://floooh.github.io/sokol-html5/)
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Making Win32 APIs More Accessible to More Languages
I'm tackling this issue from two sides:
(1) Change the C-API to make it more "binding-generator-friendly", for instance by adding a range/slice-struct to th C-API which bundles a pointer and associated size, or specially named typedefs that only exist to give the binding generator hints for special case handling.
(2) Make the bindings-generator configurable on a per-language and per-API basis, this can be as simple as a map which overrides type- and function-names, or injects manually written code into the generated bindings.
The goal is to make the generated bindings more idiomatic to the target language.
This mostly works if you have control over the underlying C-API of course, e.g. the language bindings are created by the original C-library project, not as an external project to convert a fixed C-API.
I wrote a blog post about this whole topic:
https://floooh.github.io/2020/08/23/sokol-bindgen.html
...and here's an example of one such semi-auto-generated Zig bindings, note the two "injected" helper functions at the top:
https://github.com/floooh/sokol-zig/tree/master/src/sokol
...for instance note the "injected" helper functions here:
https://github.com/floooh/sokol-zig/blob/1c93f60ad178869b84d...
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Game Development
As you can see from the comments there are lots of options. Sokol is another one https://github.com/floooh/sokol-zig
sokol
- STB: Single-file public domain libraries for C/C++
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Container2wasm: Convert Containers to WASM Blobs
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
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New Vulkan Documentation Website
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.
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Meta Releases Intermediate Graphics Library
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.
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Why glibc 2.34 removed libpthread
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
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File for Divorce from LLVM
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
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How can i play .wav file with C ?
I have never personally used it but I'm pretty sure sokol has an audio library that might be what you are after.
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Website with Godot?
And I asked floooh for similar thoughts on making a website with sokol here: https://github.com/floooh/sokol/issues/825
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I want to talk about WebGPU
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?
zig-bgfx-sdl2 - Minimal zig project to get bgfx running with sdl2
bgfx - Cross-platform, graphics API agnostic, "Bring Your Own Engine/Framework" style rendering library.
bigger - bigg (bgfx + imgui + glfw + glm) + utils
raylib - A simple and easy-to-use library to enjoy videogames programming
sokol-samples - Sample code for https://github.com/floooh/sokol
tinyrenderer - A brief computer graphics / rendering course
go - The Go programming language
LearnOpenGL - Code repository of all OpenGL chapters from the book and its accompanying website https://learnopengl.com
JNA - Java Native Access
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
ffmpeg - FFmpeg Zig package
nanovg - Antialiased 2D vector drawing library on top of OpenGL for UI and visualizations.