godot-go: Go bindings for Godot 4

Go bindings for the Godot Game Engine cross-platform game engine. godot-go integrates into Godot through the Godot GDExtension API through cgo.

The project is currently under heavy development. The API should be considered EXPERIMENTAL and is subject to change. The API is expected to become more stable as we get closer to a 1.0 release.

Getting Started

Requirements:

clang-format
gcc

TODO

Support

TODO

Building from Source

To quickly build from source, check out the code and run the following commands:

make generate && make build

Test

Once the project successfully builds, run the following commands to test:

make test

This will run the demo project in the test directory

Contact

I'm happy to help out anyone interested in the project. You can add me (surgical#3758) as a friend on the Godot Engine Discord servers. I primarily frequent the gdnative-dev room.

References

Go 101 article on Type-Unsafe Pointers
Cheatsheet for cgo data type conversion
Cross compilation with cgo with xgo
vscode-go patch to support cgo
Check unsafe pointer conversion
Loading nativescript libraries with a godot server build requires manual modification to the library .tres.
Working with GDB Go extension

Credit

Inspiration for the project was taken from ShadowApex's earlier project: godot-go
Inspiration also from godot-cpp

pcting/godot-go