minifb is a cross platform library written in Rust and that makes it easy to setup a window and to (optional) display a 32-bit pixel buffer. It also makes it easy to get input from keyboard and mouse. An example is the best way to show how it works:

Changelog

Usage

# Cargo.toml
[dependencies]
minifb = "0.16"

Example

extern crate minifb;

use minifb::{Key, Window, WindowOptions};

const WIDTH: usize = 640;
const HEIGHT: usize = 360;

fn main() {
    let mut buffer: Vec<u32> = vec![0; WIDTH * HEIGHT];

    let mut window = Window::new(
        "Test - ESC to exit",
        WIDTH,
        HEIGHT,
        WindowOptions::default(),
    )
    .unwrap_or_else(|e| {
        panic!("{}", e);
    });

    // Limit to max ~60 fps update rate
    window.limit_update_rate(Some(std::time::Duration::from_micros(16600)));

    while window.is_open() && !window.is_key_down(Key::Escape) {
        for i in buffer.iter_mut() {
            *i = 0; // write something more funny here!
        }

        // We unwrap here as we want this code to exit if it fails. Real applications may want to handle this in a different way
        window
            .update_with_buffer(&buffer, WIDTH, HEIGHT)
            .unwrap();
    }
}

Status

Currently macOS, Linux and Windows (64-bit and 32-bit) are the current supported platforms. X11 (Linux/FreeBSD/etc) support has been tested on Ubuntu (x64). Linux Wayland support is also available. Bug report(s) for other OSes/CPUs are welcome! Notice: That after 0.13 Redox hasn't been updated and some work is required to get that working again. PR are welcome.

Build instructions

cargo build
cargo run --example noise

This will run the noise example

License

Licensed under either of

• Apache License, Version 2.0 (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
• MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

at your option.

Contribution

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.