raylib dependencies

raylib has no external dependencies, all required libraries are included with raylib sources.

Internally, raylib uses some libraries developed by other people, most of them used for some very specific task, like loading a specific file format or managing the audio device.

Here is the list of dependencies used by raylib. Note that most of these dependencies are single-header public-domain libraries that are included in raylib repository.

Library	Version	raylib module	Notes
GLFW3	3.3.1	rglfw	Window and input management
rgif	0.5	core	GIF recording basic functionality
GLAD	0.1.10a0	rlgl	Extensions initialization for OpenGL 3.3 Core
stb_image	2.22	textures	Multiple image formats loading
stb_image_resize	0.96	textures	Image resizing functions
stb_image_write	1.13	textures	Image writting to multiple formats
stb_perlin	0.4	textures	Perlin noise generator
stb_truetype	1.21	text	TTF/OTF fonts data loading
stb_rect_pack	1.00	text	Rectangles packer, used on font packing
miniaudio	0.9.3	raudio	Audio device management
stb_vorbis	1.14 (fork)	raudio	OGG audio data loading
dr_mp3	0.4.0	raudio	MP3 audo data loading
dr_flac	0.9.7	raudio	FLAC audo data loading
jar_mod	0.01	raudio	MOD audio module loading
jar_xm	0.01	raudio	XM audio module loading
par_shapes	?	models	Geometric shapes generation (*)
tinyobj_loader_c	?	models	OBJ/MTL data loading (*)
cgltf	1.0	models	glTF models data loading

Note that raylib supports multiple platforms and, consequently, not all library dependencies from above are the same for all supported platforms. As commented, some of the above libraries included in raylib are single-file header-only libraries (stb_image, stb_image_write, stb_image_resize, stb_vorbis, jar_mod, jar_xm, glad, mini_al), most of those libraries only depend on the C standard library for the target platform (msvcrt, libc, bionic) and are compiled together with raylib—no need for additional library linkage.

Despite raylib requires no external dependencies, there are some platform-specific system libraries that are required to be linked on examples/games compilation. Here it is a table with required libraries:

PLATFORM	external dependencies	Notes
DESKTOP:Windows	OpenGL, winmm, gdi32, user32, kernel32	Required for window creation
DESKTOP:Linux	OpenGL, X11	Also requires linkage with libm(math), pthreads(POSIX threads), dl(dynamic loading) and X11 window system specific libs: X11, Xrandr, Xinerama, Xi, Xxf86vm and Xcursor
DESKTOP:FreeBSD	OpenGL, X11	Also requires linkage with libm(math), pthreads(POSIX threads), dl(dynamic loading) and X11 window system specific libs: X11, Xrandr, Xinerama, Xi, Xxf86vm and Xcursor
DESKTOP:OSX	OpenGL, Cocoa	Required for window creation
ANDROID	EGL, OpenGLES2.0, OpenSLES	Code must be compiled using Android NDK libraries. Requires linkage with -native_app_glue, log, android, atomic, libc, libm(math) and dl(dynamic loading)
RASPBERRY PI	EGL, OpenGLES2.0, bcm_host	Graphics run in native mode using bcm_host (no XWindows required) and inputs are also natively read (no XWindows input events), also requires linkage with libm(math), pthreads(POSIX threads) and dl(dynamic loading).
HTML5 (Web)	WebGL	Code must be compiled using emscripten SDK, dependencies linkage is automatically detected.

raylib design is very modular. Some modules can be removed on compilation if they're not required and consequently the libraries used by those modules.

Some modules can also be used as standalone, independently of raylib: rlgl, raudio.