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7368 :: NimraylibNow! - The Ultimate Raylib gaming library wrapper

• greenfork (orginal) [2021-01-10T12:22:46+01:00] view original

  Hello, my first library, hope you like it: https://github.com/greenfork/nimraylib_now

  This is an attempt to create the most idiomatic and up-to-date bindings for Raylib which aim to be easy to use for entry-level programmers. It tries to solve following problems from the last attempts:

  • Idiomatic Nim naming and conventions
  • Distributable via nimble
  • Good documentation
  • Automatic generation of bindings from the latest header files for little to no maintenance in order to upgrade the library

  Please use it, try it, see how you feel about it and share your opinion!

  Previous forum thread on trying to wrap Raylib and my inspiration: https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/5915

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• enthus1ast (orginal) [2021-01-10T14:39:15+01:00] view original

  Now this, why not 2-3 days earlier? :D ( https://github.com/enthus1ast/raylib )

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• zetashift (orginal) [2021-01-10T14:56:31+01:00] view original

  Haha, that's...unfortunate!?

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• enthus1ast (orginal) [2021-01-10T15:01:54+01:00] view original

  I guess greenfork's wrapper is better, mine is just bare minimum. But i've also written a small entity component system for my current project, if one cares :) https://github.com/enthus1ast/ecs

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• greenfork (orginal) [2021-01-10T15:11:42+01:00] view original

  Sorry :D I've got bare bones wrapper in about 1-2 days and I've been polishing it for the next 4-5 days, hope you didn't spend too much time on it. If you have any ideas on what you would make differently, feel free to share, maybe we can come up with something good

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• enthus1ast (orginal) [2021-01-10T15:16:35+01:00] view original

  I eventually swap out my wrapper with yours for my current project. Currently i polish the ecs. I'm still in search for a simple physic engine....

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• greenfork (orginal) [2021-01-10T15:40:24+01:00] view original

  If you are looking for 2D physics engine, you might want Raylib's physac. I plan to wrap it too once I understand how to generate good dll's for windows. It is the same story as with raygui, that I will need to compile physac as a dynamic library in order to use it, so far I can only provide good library files for linux

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• enthus1ast (orginal) [2021-01-10T16:12:56+01:00] view original

  Ah cool, did not know this lib, i'll give it a go. thank you!

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• enthus1ast (orginal) [2021-01-10T16:16:11+01:00] view original

  Both raygui and physac are header only, so no need to link to a library. For the gui i just had to enable the implementation: "DRAYGUI_IMPLEMENTATION"

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• enthus1ast (orginal) [2021-01-10T16:28:39+01:00] view original

  just checked, same goes for physiac: "-DPHYSAC_IMPLEMENTATION"

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• greenfork (orginal) [2021-01-10T16:52:25+01:00] view original

  Thanks a lot! I will try to reproduce everything and hopefully make it compile without hustle

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• greenfork (orginal) [2021-05-10T18:08:18+02:00] view original

  A major update, main features:

  • Raylib updated to 3.7.0
  • Windows support
  • Static compilation support

  See full release log at https://github.com/greenfork/nimraylib_now/releases/tag/v0.12.0

  Let me know if you have any problems with it or would like to see any additional features, thanks!

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• zetashift (orginal) [2021-05-10T19:47:55+02:00] view original

  This is awesome, thanks for all the great work!

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• greenfork (orginal) [2021-05-11T20:01:03+02:00] view original

  Initial library release was broken and it is fixed now. Sorry for any troubles. Enjoy!

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• greenfork (orginal) [2021-11-22T18:42:29+01:00] view original

  v0.14.0 release! https://github.com/greenfork/nimraylib_now/releases/tag/v0.14.0

  Upgraded to the next and bestest version of Raylib - 4.0!

  See Raylib's official changelog for more information https://github.com/raysan5/raylib/releases/tag/4.0.0

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• ryback08 (orginal) [2021-12-03T17:42:56+01:00] view original

  Thanks Greenfork, amazing wrapper.

  I have little questions :

  [1] Raspberry pi4 platform I try to test on raspberry pi4 (arm64 os). but unsucces.

  I managed to compile original c raylib and execute test code on pi4. I have follow wiki : https://github.com/raysan5/raylib/wiki/Working-on-Raspberry-Pi

  with nimraylib_now, i refer to : https://github.com/greenfork/nimraylib_now/blob/master/USING_RAYLIB.md try with different compilation flag everything fails. with flag -d:nimraylib_now_shared, I have fault because compiler don't find -lraylib ? like this error : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgV9AoVdFlA

  it is possible to pass PLATFORM flag to the compiler with nim ?

  [2]Exemples with different files. I actulay test on w10. It works great but i don't find exemple how to corectly separte files (maybe noob question) for exemple, i create another nim files with procedure to draw something

  • draw with shapes modules seems works fine (drawline...)
  • I can't display a texture (log console seems to be load my texture)
  • Impossible de call raygui procedure (multiple definition)

  So maybe i forgot to do something like import raylib context (or opengl context) to draw correctly

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• greenfork (orginal) [2023-04-15T08:36:08+02:00] view original

  I declared the end of life for my NimRaylibNow! project https://github.com/greenfork/nimraylib_now Thanks for everyone who used it and participated! It still works for Raylib v4.2 but I will no longer maintain it.

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• Araq (orginal) [2023-04-15T09:30:48+02:00] view original

  Sad to hear, but as long as it is open source others can continue your good work.

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• termer (orginal) [2023-04-15T18:17:57+02:00] view original

  I started a project that I haven't finished yet with this library. Is there another you can recommend as a successor? I haven't gotten very far into my project yet.

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