Yet another raylib wrapper for Ruby

  • Created : 2021-10-17
  • Last modified : 2023-03-19

Provides Ruby bindings for raylib-related libraries including:

Features

  • Generated semi-automatically
  • Based on Ruby/FFI ( https://github.com/ffi/ffi )
  • Pre-built binaries are inside:
    • Windows (x86_64)
    • macOS (x86_64, ARM64)
    • Linux (x86_64 WSL, ARM64 Chromebook)

Quick Start

D:\> gem install raylib-bindings
Fetching raylib-bindings-...
...
1 gem installed

D:\> ruby -r raylib -e 'Raylib.template'
[Info] Raylib.template : C:/Ruby31-x64/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/raylib-bindings-0.0.11/examples/template.rb => d://template.rb
[Info] Raylib.template : Done

D:\> ruby template.rb

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Prerequisites

  • Ruby interpreter

  • If you need to build DLLs/shared libralies for your own runtime envrioenment (Linux, etc.):

    • CMake https://cmake.org/download/

    • C Compiler

      • Tested compilers:

        • [macOS] clang

          $ clang --version
Apple clang version 14.0.0 (clang-1400.0.29.202)
Target: arm64-apple-darwin22.2.0
Thread model: posix
InstalledDir: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin

        • [Windows] gcc

          gcc (Rev7, Built by MSYS2 project) 12.2.0

        • [Linux] gcc, clang

          (x86_64) Ubuntu clang version 14.0.0-1ubuntu1
(arm64) aarch64-linux-gnu-g++ ( https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal/g++-aarch64-linux-gnu )
Older versions * Ruby interpreter * Tested on: * [macOS] * ruby 3.2.0 (2022-12-25 revision a528908271) [arm64-darwin21] * ruby 3.1.2p20 (2022-04-12 revision 4491bb740a) [arm64-darwin21] * ruby 3.1.0p0 (2021-12-25 revision fb4df44d16) [arm64-darwin20] * ruby 3.0.2p107 (2021-07-07 revision 0db68f0233) [arm64-darwin20] * [Windows] https://rubyinstaller.org/downloads/ Ruby+Devkit * ruby 3.1.2p20 (2022-04-12 revision 4491bb740a) [x64-mingw-ucrt] * ruby 3.1.1p18 (2022-02-18 revision 53f5fc4236) [x64-mingw-ucrt] * ruby 3.0.2p107 (2021-07-07 revision 0db68f0233) [x64-mingw32] * Compiler * Tested on: * [macOS] clang $ clang --version Apple clang version 13.1.6 (clang-1316.0.21.2.5) Target: arm64-apple-darwin21.5.0 Thread model: posix InstalledDir: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin $ clang --version Apple clang version 13.1.6 (clang-1316.0.21.2.3) Target: arm64-apple-darwin21.5.0 Thread model: posix InstalledDir: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin Apple clang version 13.0.0 (clang-1300.0.29.3) Target: arm64-apple-darwin20.6.0 Thread model: posix InstalledDir: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin * [Windows] gcc gcc (Rev9, Built by MSYS2 project) 11.2.0 gcc (Rev10, Built by MSYS2 project) 11.2.0

Projects

See the projects below to learn how to use this library:

Limitation

License

Shared libraries in lib directory are built on top of these products and are available under the terms of these licenses:

All ruby codes here are available under the terms of the zlib/libpng License ( http://opensource.org/licenses/Zlib ).

Ruby-raylib : Yet another raylib wrapper for Ruby
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