Quality of life things to make writing jai programs for linux easier. For now mostly X11-adjacent bindings and helpers. This readme is constantly under construction, so feel free to look into generated dir and into generate.jai to see what's going on and what is provided
Bindinds to xcb, xkbcommon and so on. Look at generated to see what we have there.
They come in two flavors:
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libname.jai - a version that will make Jai link the library
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libname_fp.jai - a version that will not link the library, but you will have to load function pointers yourself (hence _fp suffix). This is helpful when you want to ship a binary that supports both X11 and Wayland, but you don't want user's computer to necessarily have both installed in order for the program to run at all.
See xcb_simple.jai
- xcb-based XDND implementation for dragndrop
- xcb-based clipboard handling
- XInput for smooth scrolling and gestures (libxcb-xinput bindings)
- xkbcommon for keyboard handling (libxkbcommon bindings)
- EGL for graphics
- WM hints for icons and stuff like that
- libxcb-cursor
- Wayland stuff (sigh)
- Generate X11 extensions directly from xcbproto without relying on shared libs
I'd like to be able to rawdog the X11 wire and don't require linking or loading any C libraries at all, but I'm not sure if it's feasible at the moment considering that a lot of useful things do require xcb connection. For example, libxkbcommon and graphics stuff. Not sure if it's possible to substitute it with something else.