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This uses CFFI API static bindings rather than ctypes. Hopefully this will be faster, the static type knowledge from the C
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headers will result in fewer bugs, and using the original headers will make it easier to maintain.
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- Currently the goal is make usage as similar to the original C as CFFI will allow. There are a few differences
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- you can see in the examples. Making a 'Pythonic' library would be an additional layer on top which hasn't been
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- See test_static.py and examples/* .py for how to use.
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- # Installing
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+ # Install
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** MacOS: Python 3.7** : we distribute a statically linked Raylib library, so in theory the only thing you need to do is install
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us from Pypi.
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python3 build_linux.py
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+ # Use
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+ ## raylib.static
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+ Currently the goal is make usage as similar to the original C as CFFI will allow. There are a few differences
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+ you can see in the examples. See test_static.py and examples/* .py for how to use.
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+ ## raylib.dynamic
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+ In addition to the API static bindings I have attempted to do CFFI ABI dynamic bindings in order to avoid the need to compile a C extension module.
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+ There have been some weird failures with dynamic bindings and ctypes bindings before and often the failures are silent
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+ so you dont even know. Also the static bindings should be faster. Therefore I recommend the static ones...
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+ BUT the dynamic bindings have the big advantage that you don't need to compile anything to install.
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+ See test_dynamic.py for how to use them.
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+ ## raylib.static.pyray
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+ Wrapper around the static bindings. Makes the names snakecase and converts strings to bytes automatically. See test_pyray.py.
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+ ## raylib.richlib
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+ A very easy to use library on top of static bindings, modelled after Pygame Zero.
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* converting more examples from C to python
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- ### Dynamic bindings
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- In addition to the API static bindings I have attempted to do CFFI ABI dynamic bindings in order to avoid the need to compile a C extension module.
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- See test_dynamic.py for how to use them.
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