raylib.c3l

raylib.c3l is a C3 bindings for raylib 5.0.

Though, C Libraries can be easily ported to C3, this binding supposed to use the C3 features for easier usage.

• Since C3 has builtin vector support such as Vec2f, Vec3f, etc...; Vector helpers are added to convert raylib Vectors to C3 vectors and vice versa. (See rl_vector).
• This bindings uses features to disable some raylib functions such as Memory Management, Standard File IO and so on, are disabled by default because C3 already has its functions(see #Installation).
• Some raylib functions returns an error, this bindings replaced that using Optionals (under construction).
• For function that required a array/object pointer and its length, is replaced by List(<Object>) or Object[] depending on function usage.

Disclaimer: I created this binding to learn C3 more in depth, ive also borrow some inspiration from official raylib bindings in order to make this binding. These are some things this binding can improved, specially the documentation. So feel free to make suggestions!

Supported Platforms

API	Windows	Linux	macOS	Web	Android	Raspberry Pi
core		✔️
rgui		✔️
physac		❌
rlgl		❌

I only have linux running on my pc, so i can't test it on other OS. You can however compile raylib from source yourself(with raygui enabled) and copy the compiled library to target folder in parent directory of this binding.

Installation

In your project parent directory, run this command:

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/NexushasTaken/raylib.c3l ./lib/raylib.c3l

Add this to your project.json, you can uncomment some features that are listed if you want to use those functions.

"dependencies": [ "raylib" ],
"features": [
  // See rcore.c3
  //"SUPPORT_INTERNAL_MEMORY_MANAGEMENT",
  //"SUPPORT_STANDARD_FILEIO",
  //"SUPPORT_FILE_SYSTEM_FUNCTIONS",
  //"SUPPORT_DATA_ENCODER",
  // See text.c3
  //"SUPPORT_TEXT_CODEPOINTS_MANAGEMENT",
  //"SUPPORT_TEXT_C_STRING_MANAGEMENT",
  //"SUPPORT_RANDOM_GENERATION",

  "SUPPORT_RAYGUI",
  //"RAYGUI_NO_ICONS",
  //"RAYGUI_CUSTOM_ICONS",
],

Linux

You can use just package to automatically build raylib and copy to its specific folder.

• Archlinux

  sudo pacman -S just
  

• Debian derivatives

  sudo apt install just
  

• Microsoft Windows (scoop)

  scoop install just
  

• macOS

  port install just
  

After you installed just package, enter these commands

cd lib/raylib.c3l && just build_raylib

Future goals

• Better documentation and the README itself.
• Testing on different platforms
• Port every raylib examples to C3
• Use C3 allocators to handle raylib allocations? (for easier resource management)
• Add physac port?
• Add rlgl port?
• Provide user to configure and compile raylib?