A simple Zig GUI library. Tested and compatible with with zig 0.15.2. Clone and run the examples to start. These work out of the box without any additional configuration on Linux or Windows.

zig run 2048.zig

zig run pathtracer.zig

The way it works is very basic:

1. allocate canvas
2. paint on it
3. dump contents to window

There are wrappers for operating systems to get to window and event handling as quick as possible, but you're welcome to roll your own. For example you could load the canvas as a GPU texture and use it as a GUI for an OpenGl application.

To use import public functions from index.zig This is the public API surface that we try to keep stable and not to break.

Project goals:

• no dependencies required
• no breaking changes

Planned development:

• add more examples (games/small tools)
• clean up event handling
• make reusable controls
• adding a wrapper for glfw
• make reusable layout primitives

Not planned:

• GPU acceleration
• full unicode support
• custom font support

I know these are dealbreakers for many projects. Go use other frameworks if these are a requirement for you as these features are probably not happening.

Optional dependencies:

Some of the experiments do use some additional libaries. This is not core. But you may need to manually link additional libs if the build fails.

zig run 2048.zig -lc -lxcb -lxcb-image

On linux if you used xcb for example you need to insall these:

on Debian

sudo apt install libxcb1-dev libxcb-image0-dev

on Fedora

sudo dfn install libxcb-devel xcb-util-image-devel