Haiyajan

Haiyajan (هیجان; /ˈhaɪəʤɑːn/ Haiya-jahn) is an entertainment interface that is designed to be small, fast, and simple to use. It uses plugins named "Libretro cores" to provide various emulation and multimedia features. It is written in C99 language and depends only on the SDL2 library and the Libretro cores you wish to use.

Haiyajan is a new project and is therefore not ready for regular use. The first stable version will be released as version "1.0".

Join the community on Reddit at /r/Haiyajan/.

Libretro

Haiyajan uses the Libretro API to provide various capabilities, such as game emulation and multimedia. RetroArch is the reference implementation of the Libretro API. The Libretro cores and their respective content must be downloaded separately. You may find many Libretro projects at the official Libretro repository list.

Download

The latest release is version 0.1.

See the Releases page for downloads.

License

Haiyajan is free software released under the GNU Affero General Public License Version 3 (AGPL v3); see the LICENSE file for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

The Haiyajan icon was created by Cher at https://ko-fi.com/staticevent.

Development

Versioning

This project will use a MAJOR.MINOR revision system. The first release build will be version 1.0. Until then, all releases will be considered unstable. The MAJOR version will then be incremented only when a significant change is made to the program. This may include significant changes to the user interface, use of a new version of Libretro API, removal of support for a platform, etc. All other changes will only increment the MINOR version.

Compared to Semantic Versioning 2.0, the PATCH version is removed in this project for brevity.

Support

The platforms that this project will be regularly tested on for major releases are currently:

OS	Kernel	Architecture	Test Platform	C Library	Additionally Tests Support For:
Alpine Linux	Linux Longterm	x86-64	Various	musl libc	Generic Modern Linux System with OpenGL 3.3+
Alpine Linux	Linux Longterm	ARM1176JZF-S	Raspberry Pi 1A	musl libc	Any Low Power Embedded Linux System with OpenGLES 2
Arch Linux	Linux Mainline	ARM Cortex-A72	Raspberry Pi 4B	GNU libc	Any High Power Embedded Linux System with OpenGLES 3
ReactOS	Windows NT 5.1	x86-32	VirtualBox	MSVC 2019, v141_xp	Wine, Windows XP/7/8.1/10
Windows 10	Windows NT 10.0	x86-64	Various	MSVC 2019, v142	Generic Modern Windows System with OpenGL 3.3+
Switch	Horizon	ARM Cortex-A57 & A53	Yuzu	GNU libc	Nintendo Switch via libNX with OpenGL 3.3+

Haiyajan should work on any platform supported by SDL2 and has a C99 compiler. Haiyajan may therefore run on Linux, Unix, Windows XP/2003/Vista/7/8/10/RT, Mac OS X 10.5+/macOS, Haiku, iOS 5.1.1+, Android 2.3.3+, Emscripten, Nintendo Switch (libnx).

We welcome bug reports and contributions for all platforms.

Note:

Haiyajan executables built for Windows will be compiled with MSVC 2019, and may require the Visual C++ 2015 Redistributable.
Since the official SDL2 API for the Nintendo Switch is released under an NDA, it is not compatible with the AGPL license of Haiyajan. Consider using libnx.
Libretro cores may have different system requirements and licenses.

Building

The following dependencies are required for building Haiyajan. Other tools may be used, but are unsupported by this project.

SDL2 2.0.12
C99 Compiler (GCC, Clang, MSVC 2019)
GNU Make 4.3

When compiling for Windows NT, follow the instructions under the Windows NT header below. Otherwise, simply execute GNU make in the Haiyajan project folder to build with automatically detected options based on available libraries.

Execute make help in order to see various build options. Some options may be automatically selected or unsupported for your build platform.

Windows NT

When compiling for Windows NT platforms (such as ReactOS, Windows XP, Windows 10, etc.) please use the "Native Tools Command Prompt for VS 2019". Steps for compiling Haiyajan for Windows NT are basically:

On a Windows 10 platform with Visual Studio 2019 installed, download and compile the latest GNU make by executing "build_w32.bat" within the Native Tools Command Prompt for VS 2019. Add the compiled gnumake.exe binary to PATH.
Download SDL2 and compile it with cmake. Specify the toolset v141_xp when targeting x86 (32-bit) version of Windows.
Within Native Tools Command Prompt for VS 2019, execute GNU make with the environment variables SDL_LIB and SDL_INC set to the location of the compiled SDL2 libraries and the location of the SDL2 headers respectively.

Execute make help for help with options.

Objectives

In no particular order.

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