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 internally some libraries for window/graphics/inputs management and also to support different fileformats loading, all those libraries are embedded with raylib and are available in [src/external](https://github.com/raysan5/raylib/tree/master/src/external) directory. Check [raylib dependencies](https://github.com/raysan5/raylib/wiki/raylib-dependencies) on [raylib Wiki](https://github.com/raysan5/raylib/wiki) for a detailed list.
basic example
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This is a basic raylib example, it creates a window and it draws the text `"Congrats! You created your first window!"` in the middle of the screen. This example can be seen [running live in web here](https://www.raylib.com/examples/web/core/loader.html?name=core_basic_window).
```c
#include "raylib.h"
int main(void)
{
InitWindow(800, 450, "raylib [core] example - basic window");
while (!WindowShouldClose())
{
BeginDrawing();
ClearBackground(RAYWHITE);
DrawText("Congrats! You created your first window!", 190, 200, 20, LIGHTGRAY);
*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 If the version is out of date, please [create an issue or pull request](https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg) on the vcpkg repository.*
*The raylib recipe in conan is kept up to date by conan team members and community contributors. If the version is out of date, please [create an issue or pull request](https://github.com/conan-io/conan-center-index) on the conan-center-index repository.*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 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 designed to be learned using the examples as the main reference. There is no a standard API documentation, just a **cheatsheet** containing all the functions available on the library and a short description of each one, input parameters and result value should be intuitive just seing the naming. Some additional documentation about raylib design can be found in raylib GitHub Wiki. Here the more relevant links:
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.
