Raylib-Dart

Dart bindings for raylib 4.0.0, a simple and easy-to-use library to learn videogames programming www.raylib.com

Note

• This project is still work in progress and a lot of APIs from raylib are not yet exposed correctly

• Right now it only supports Windows and Linux (in theory Mac should also work perfectly fine).

• This package uses a custom fork of raylib added as submodule under vendors. So stock raylib binaries might not work.

• Some APIs from raylib are not exposed because I feel that dart already has native libraries to handle such things. For example:

  • Logging
  • File management (expect dropped file APIs)
  • MemAlloc and MemFree

• For a full list exposed APIs, check the Cheatsheet

Usage

A simple usage example:

import 'package:raylib_dart/raylib_dart.dart';

int main() {
  // Might be a different path depending on your platform.
  final raylibPath = path.join(
    Directory.current.path, 'vendors/raylib/build/raylib/Release/raylib.dll');

  final raylib = Raylib(raylibPath);
  final core = raylib.core;

  core.initWindow(1280, 720, 'Hello Raylib!');
  core.targetFPS = 60;

  while (!core.shouldWindowClose) {
    core.beginDrawing();
    core.clearBackground(core.colors.black);
    core.endDrawing();
  }

  core.closeWindow();
}

Todo

• Add idiomatic wrappers for all the auto-generated dart bindings.

• (In progress) Add APIs to create native raylib structs (like Vector2, Color, Vector3) from dart. See structs example from dart ffi.

• Figure out best way to distribute platform specific raylib binaries with this package. See sqflite for reference.

• Get all the examples from raylib working with this package.

• Add build instructions for the forked version of raylib.

• Add instructions for development and contribution to this project.

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