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AndyObtiva / glimmer-dsl-libui

Glimmer DSL for LibUI - Prerequisite-Free Ruby Desktop Development Cross-Platform Native GUI Library - The Quickest Way From Zero To GUI - If You Liked Shoes, You'll Love Glimmer! - No need to pre-install any prerequisites. Just install the gem and have platform-independent GUI that just works on Mac, Windows, and Linux.
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Just some info: https://github.com/libui-ng/libui-ng may be a future alternative to andlabs-libui #17

Closed rubyFeedback closed 2 years ago

rubyFeedback commented 2 years ago

Hi Andy, just a short notification

https://github.com/libui-ng/libui-ng may be a future alternative to andlabs libui. I can not yet say how realistic it is for these guys to maintain a libui 2.0 but we can always hope for the best. :)

I mention it here just in the case you have some issues you may want to see resolved eventually - perhaps they can help eventually. Either way this issue request is just a short notification - sorry for spamming the issue tracker. :D

AndyObtiva commented 2 years ago

andlabs has been in the GUI industry a very long time. I would want the next release of libui to come from him.

kojix2 commented 2 years ago

Hi there!

LibUI will search for shared libraries in the LIBUIDIR directory if you set the environment variable LIBUIDIR. https://github.com/kojix2/LibUI/blob/6445605ed1a1626ec8920aa5666d20624ff6c770/lib/libui.rb#L14-L15

Here is how to try libui-ng in Ruby's LibUI.

Build libui-ng: 

# build
git clone https://github.com/libui-ng/libui-ng
cd libui-ng
meson setup build # options...
ninja -C build

Create a symbolic link (remove number)

cd build/meson-out
ln -s libui.so.0 libui.so # In the case of Linux

Then

ENV["LIBUIDIR"] = "/home/kojix2/C/libui-ng/build/meson-out" # change here

require "libui"

# check
p LibUI.ffi_lib
# "/home/kojix2/C/libui-ng/build/meson-out"

# Your code goes here...