Zig / SDL2 / WGPU Triangle

A cross-platform Zig graphics demo using wgpu-native to render a spinning triangle.

Related Projects:

• wgpu-example - Rust version
• wgpu-example-c - C version
• wgpu-example-odin - Odin version

Prerequisites

• Zig 0.15+
• just - Command runner
• PowerShell (Windows)

Quickstart

# Download and setup dependencies (wgpu-native, SDL2, zalgebra)
just setup

# Build and run
just run

Commands

Command	Description
just setup	Download wgpu-native, SDL2, and fetch Zig dependencies
just build	Build the triangle executable
just build-release	Build with release optimizations
just run	Build and run the triangle
just run-release	Build and run with release optimizations
just clean	Remove build artifacts

Project Structure

wgpu-example-zig/
├── src/
│   └── main.zig        # Main source file
├── build.zig           # Zig build configuration
├── build.zig.zon       # Zig package dependencies
├── justfile            # Build commands
├── README.md           # This file
├── include/            # Headers (created by setup)
│   ├── webgpu/         # wgpu-native headers
│   └── SDL2/           # SDL2 headers
├── lib/                # Libraries (created by setup)
├── SDL2.dll            # SDL2 runtime (created by setup)
└── wgpu_native.dll     # wgpu-native runtime (created by setup)

Dependencies

• wgpu-native - Native WebGPU implementation
• SDL2 - Cross-platform windowing and input
• zalgebra - Linear algebra library for Zig

Controls

• ESC - Quit the application
• Window can be resized