oscar-soirey/Raven
A lightweight, multithreaded GUI library in C for editors and tools. For C, Rust, C++, C#, Java, Python, Zig, Lua, Go, Odin
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Raven A lightweight, multithreaded GUI library in C for editors and tools. Raven builds with CMake and a C11 compiler, and has no dependency to install besides the X11 development package on Linux. The Vulkan headers are downloaded automatically during the configuration (git and an internet connection are needed for that), unless the Vulkan SDK is installed. No Vulkan library is linked. Each build below gives the library, the designer, the examples and the tests. Add -DRAVENBUILDSHARED=ON to the configure command for a shared library (raven.dll, libraven.so, libraven.dylib) instead of a static one. (Community is fine) with the Desktop development with C++ workload; it includes CMake. Install Git. The programs are in build\bin\Release (start raveneditor.exe or ravendesigner.exe); the library, its headers and the CMake package are in install\. Shortcuts: build.bat does the configure and the build in one command, generate-cmake.bat --open opens the solution in Visual Studio (see Build options…
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- Disclaimer : This project is still in active development and public API is subject to change.
- Build from source
- Windows (Visual Studio)
- Windows (MinGW-w64)
- Linux
- macOS
- Using the built library
- Any language: the interface in XML, the code in yours
- The designer
- The theme editor
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A lightweight, multithreaded GUI library in C for editors and tools. For C, Rust, C++, C#, Java, Python, Zig, Lua, Go, Odin
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- Owner
- oscar-soirey
- Primary language
- C
- Stars
- 1,981
- Forks
- 89
- Open issues + pull requests
- 10
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Archived
- No
- Default branch
- main
- Created
- 2026-10-09T05:45:57.000Z
- Last push
- 2026-11-06T11:13:05.000Z
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