Jimbal is a binding of libGimbal to the Jai programming language. It is provided as a bindings generator.

These bindings are not extensively tested.

Download this repo in your discoverable modules folder of choice, and download the submodules recursively.

git clone https://github.com/AaronGlazer/jimbal
cd jimbal
git submodule update --init --recursive

To generate and use these bindings, you must first build libGimbal. This requires CMake as well as a C compiler. I will suggest clang since the generator also uses clang to preprocess and parse the header files, though I don't know if using another compiler will or won't cause any issues.

You may want to check libGimbal's own README in case this is out of date or missing details, but you should be able to build it via something like this, from within libGimal's root directory:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake -T ClangCL ..
cmake --build .

Now, in order to use the generator, modules/Bindings_Generator must be patched to handle a scenario for C-style functions with no prototype. This is not replicatable in Jai, so we introduce a workaround. For now, we don't want to submit this as an official patch to Bindings Generator because it's not technically the correct behavior.

The misc/module.patch file in this repo can be used to patch Bindings Generator from Jai beta 0.1.063. You can also manually apply it, since it's not a large change.

Once the previous steps are complete, run jai generate.jai to build the generator.

If you used a different name for your libGimbal build folder, you can supply it via a command line flag:

jai generate.jai -build_dir my_build_dir_name