NDL (Nolen's DirectMedia Library)

C++ cross-platform library that provides a platform-agnostic access to low-level systems, such as windowing and input.

Currently supported platforms:

• Wayland;
• Windows.

Features:

• Supports creating and managing multiple windows;
• Input events are received per each window.

Future plans

In future, this library may provide access to other low-level platform-dependent abstractions.

Plans:

• Audio support;
• Touch input support;
• Controller input support;
• GPU-accelerated rendering using Vulkan.

There are no plans to provide GPU-accelerated rendering using OpenGL, DirectX or Metal. GPU-accelerated rendering using Vulkan should be sufficient to cover all GPU-accelerated needs.

Dependencies

This library makes use of native platform APIs and has NO dependencies.

Obviously, it still depends on platform-specific libraries/tools (e.g. libwayland and wayland-scanner on Wayland).

Building

Use the usual cmake workflow to build the project.

With multi-config generators (e.g. MSVC):

cmake . -Bbuild
cmake --build build --config Release -j0

With single-config generators (e.g. Make/Ninja):

cmake . -Bbuild/Release -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
cmake --build build/Release -j0

Testing

To run tests, use ctest after building:

# Adjust according to build directory.
ctest --test-dir=build/Release --output-on-failure --schedule-random -j0

Packaging

To create a package, use cpack after building:

# Adjust according to build directory.
cpack --config build/Release/CPackConfig.cmake