zig-window

My Vision

A window client library. It gives you an API for creating windows, possibly fullscreen, a graphics context, and events associated with the windows, such as mouse and keyboard input.

• No dependency on libc or any C libraries
• Cross platform:
  • X11
  • Windows
  • MacOS
  • Wayland
• Graphics contexts:
  • Vulkan
  • DirectX
  • Metal
  • OpenGL

Current Status

It's a proof-of-concept of a Vulkan "Hello World" triangle, whose binaries are portable across different Linux distributions, even ones that have nonstandard dynamic linkers.

"how it works" writeup is TODO.

Building

Tested with Zig 0.7.0+479f259ea.

zig build -Dtarget=x86_64-linux
patchelf  --remove-needed libdummy.so.0 zig-cache/bin/static-window
./zig-cache/bin/static-window

The -Dtarget parameter is important if you want to put the binary up for downloading - this makes Zig target the "baseline" CPU instead of using the fancy cool features of your native CPU.

This should work just fine on other CPU architectures though; for example you could change x86_64 to aarch64 for 64-bit ARM.

Removing the external dependency on patchelf is TODO.

Reported to work on these systems so far:

• Ubuntu
• Debian
• NixOS
• Arch Linux
• clearlinux
• glibc-based void linux
• musl-based void linux

Please file an issue if you find that vkcube from your package manager works but binaries produced by this project do not.