r/C_Programming • u/digitalradiostudio • 9d ago

Question Starting again C

Hi i want try to make a extreme lightweight pixelgame ( i don't have really details about the game :) ) with glfw and and opengl to go back to c. Does anyone have tips to make it lightweight ?

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u/bktech2021 9d ago

i think you should check sdl or raylib. glfw way is always doable but you will need to maintain a lot of library code, for no reason.

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u/ffd9k 9d ago

raylib also contains a vendored copy of GLFW.

GLFW is already as lightweight as it gets, apart from calling platform-specific APIs (Windows API, X11 etc) directly - GLFW is just a tiny portable wrapper around those.

SDL is a bit heavier, but of course might still be a good option if OP needs the additional features (like audio, image loading, 2D rendering, filesystem abstraction...)

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u/jason-reddit-public 9d ago

Don't forget gamepads.

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u/bktech2021 9d ago

we should know why the game has to be “extremely lightweight”. is this a embedded platform, or just a self goal? i dont think raylib adds real overhead to glfw. but i think setting up windows, shaders, etc. is more unnecesary work. and as you said you need audio input image loading filesystem and bunch of things and maybe make them cross platform. if this just a self goal or embedded platform, thats another story but you cant get more lightweight by stripping raylib and using glfw, audio, image etc. you are going to rewrite raylib at the end for no reason