NAppGUI

Cross-Platform C SDK. Build portable desktop applications for Windows, macOS and Linux, using just C.

This repository ONLY have headers and precompiled libraries for the most popular compilers. The source code is in nappgui_src.

Quick start in Windows

Prerequisites

• Visual Studio
• CMake

Open the Developer Command Prompt

(from C:\)

// Clone the NAppGUI repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/frang75/nappgui.git nappgui_sdk

// Create a build directory
mkdir nappgui_build
cd nappgui_build

// Generate the Visual Studio Solution
cmake -G "Visual Studio 16 2019" ../nappgui_sdk/src

// Build the examples
msbuild NAppGUI.sln

// Run examples in 'demo' and 'howto' folders
.\demo\die\Debug\Die.exe
.\demo\bricks\Debug\Bricks.exe
.\demo\products\Debug\Products.exe
.\howto\col2dhello\Debug\Col2dHello.exe
.\howto\guihello\Debug\GuiHello.exe
...

Quick start in macOS

Prerequisites

• Xcode
• CMake

Open the Terminal

(from your home dir ~/)

// Clone the NAppGUI repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/frang75/nappgui.git nappgui_sdk

// Create a build directory
mkdir nappgui_build
cd nappgui_build

// Generate the Xcode project
cmake -G "Xcode" ../nappgui_sdk/src

// Build the examples
xcodebuild

// Run examples in 'demo' and 'howto' folders
./demo/die/Debug/Die.app/Contents/MacOS/Die
./demo/bricks/Debug/Bricks.app/Contents/MacOS/Bricks
./demo/products/Debug/Products.app/Contents/MacOS/Products
./howto/col2dhello/Debug/Col2dHello.app/Contents/MacOS/Col2dHello
./howto/guihello/Debug/GuiHello.app/Contents/MacOS/GuiHello
...

Quick start in Linux

Prerequisites

// Development tools
sudo apt-get install gcc
sudo apt-get install g++
sudo apt-get install git
sudo apt-get install make
sudo apt-get install cmake

// Development libraries
sudo apt-get install libgtk-3-dev
sudo apt-get install libglu1-mesa-dev freeglut3-dev mesa-common-dev
sudo apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev

Open the Terminal

(from your home dir ~/)

// Clone the NAppGUI repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/frang75/nappgui.git nappgui_sdk

// Create a build directory
mkdir nappgui_build
cd nappgui_build

// Generate the Makefiles
cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" ../nappgui_sdk/src

// Build the examples
make

// Run examples in 'demo' and 'howto' folders
./demo/die/Debug/Die
./demo/bricks/Debug/Bricks
./demo/products/Debug/Products
./howto/col2dhello/Debug/Col2dHello
./howto/guihello/Debug/GuiHello
...

More info

• NAppGUI Quick Start
• NAppGUI Hello World
• Create a new project
• About Portability

Build Network

The NAppGUI project has be compiled with the build network show below.