Raylib support Please

[stark26583]

It would be nice to have raylib support. since I am a beginner I dont know how to add it myself. I would appreciate advice or suggessions on that.

[silbinarywolf]

I'm not sure I have the time to investigate this but if someone else is willing to put up a PR of an example, I'd put it in the repository.

They'd have to look into:

• Seeing what the Raylib Makefile generates for the AndroidManifest.xml file or check out the "raymob" repository and setup an AndroidManifest.xml file based on that. (Seems recent enough)
  • Raylib: https://github.com/raysan5/raylib/blob/fa0eada61a1131a7413df9139ead6d018b169f22/examples/Makefile.Android
  • Raymob: https://github.com/Bigfoot71/raymob/blob/2f0cd1790aeee5e7a65def9adc68eec6a3b740b8/app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml
• Setup a NativeActivity class that loads your code as a library. Using something like this but loading "main" should in theory work.
  • https://github.com/Bigfoot71/raymob/blob/545b89174c3884298957046859d893db936f524e/app/src/main/java/com/raylib/raymob/NativeLoader.java#L42
  • Why main? This Android SDK repository puts "libmain.so" in your APK like so:

    zig-android-sdk/src/androidbuild/apk.zig

    Line 387 in 17aa647

    _ = apk_files.addCopyFile(artifact.getEmittedBin(), b.fmt("lib/{s}/libmain.so", .{so_dir}));

Unfortunately making things work on Android devices is more painful than you'd expect. When I personally got started with learning Zig about two years ago, I started with this library here and got it running in the browser: https://github.com/Not-Nik/raylib-zig

I'd recommend you probably start somewhere simpler like there, but also don't even start with it working in the browser, just get something working on your desktop ideally.

[stark26583]

Thanks for the reply. I am kinda playing with it on desktop but i really want to write an android game or app with zig. I will look into to the stuff you mentioned more and .Thanks. You are doing great.

[lumenkeyes]

I can add an example at some point but raylib is actually pretty easy to build for Android. rcore_android.c provides wrappers for the important callbacks and the user of the library can just provide an exported main function and write it mostly normally. You can even use raylib-zig's bindings if you change the build.zig.zon dependency to point to a more recent raylib commit. I added support for Android targets to raylib's build.zig a couple of weeks ago (although it's a little ad-hoc). Thanks for this project btw, it's a huge part of what made things so simple. I'll try to get a simple example put together if that would be welcome @silbinarywolf ?

[silbinarywolf]

Yeah sounds good, if you put that together and put up a PR, I'm happy to merge it :)