raylib is highly inspired by Borland BGI graphics lib and by XNA framework and it's specially well suited for prototyping, tooling, graphical applications, embedded systems and education.
*NOTE for ADVENTURERS: raylib is a programming library to enjoy videogames programming; no fancy interface, no visual helpers, no auto-debugging... just coding in the most pure spartan-programmers way.*
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raylib uses on its [core](https://github.com/raysan5/raylib/blob/master/src/core.c) module the outstanding [GLFW3](http://www.glfw.org/) library, embedded in the form of [rglfw](https://github.com/raysan5/raylib/blob/master/src/rglfw.c) module, to avoid external dependencies.
raylib uses on its [raudio](https://github.com/raysan5/raylib/blob/master/src/raudio.c) module, the amazing [miniaudio](https://github.com/dr-soft/miniaudio) library to support multiple platforms and multiple audio backends.
raylib uses internally several single-file header-only libraries to support different fileformats loading and saving, all those libraries are embedded with raylib and available in [src/external](https://github.com/raysan5/raylib/tree/master/src/external) directory. Check [raylib Wiki](https://github.com/raysan5/raylib/wiki/raylib-dependencies) for a detailed list.
*On Android platform, `native_app_glue` module (provided by Android NDK) and native Android libraries are used to manage window/context, inputs and activity life cycle.*
*On Raspberry Pi platform (native mode), `Videocore API` and `EGL` libraries are used for window/context management. Inputs are processed using `evdev` Linux libraries*
*The raylib port in vcpkg is kept up to date by Microsoft team members and community contributors. If the version is out of date, please [create an issue or pull request](https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg) on the vcpkg repository.*
[raylib Wiki](https://github.com/raysan5/raylib/wiki#development-platforms) contains detailed instructions on building and usage on multiple platforms.
- [Working on Windows](https://github.com/raysan5/raylib/wiki/Working-on-Windows)
- [Working on macOS](https://github.com/raysan5/raylib/wiki/Working-on-macOS)
- [Working on GNU Linux](https://github.com/raysan5/raylib/wiki/Working-on-GNU-Linux)
- [Working on FreeBSD](https://github.com/raysan5/raylib/wiki/Working-on-FreeBSD)
- [Working on Raspberry Pi](https://github.com/raysan5/raylib/wiki/Working-on-Raspberry-Pi)
- [Working for Android](https://github.com/raysan5/raylib/wiki/Working-for-Android)
- [Working for Web (HTML5)](https://github.com/raysan5/raylib/wiki/Working-for-Web-(HTML5))
- [Working for UWP (Universal Window Platform)](https://github.com/raysan5/raylib/wiki/Working-for-UWP)
- [Working anywhere with CMake](https://github.com/raysan5/raylib/wiki/Working-with-CMake)
*Note that Wiki is open for edit, if you find some issue while building raylib for your target platform, feel free to edit the Wiki or open and issue related to it.*
raylib has been developed on Windows platform using [Notepad++](https://notepad-plus-plus.org/) and [MinGW GCC](http://mingw-w64.org/doku.php) compiler but it can be used with other IDEs on multiple platforms.
[Projects directory](https://github.com/raysan5/raylib/tree/master/projects) contains several ready-to-use **project templates** to build raylib and code examples with multiple IDEs.
*Note that there are lots of IDEs supported, some of the provided templates could require some review, please, if you find some issue with some template or you think they could be improved, feel free to send a PR or open a related issue.*
raylib is licensed under an unmodified zlib/libpng license, which is an OSI-certified, BSD-like license that allows static linking with closed source software. Check [LICENSE](LICENSE) for further details.
