Silk.NET is a high-speed, advanced library, providing bindings to popular low-level APIs such as OpenGL and OpenAL. Use Silk.NET to add cross-platform 3D graphics, audio, compute and haptics to your C# application.

Silk.NET works on any .NET Standard 2.0 compliant platform. This includes Xamarin, .NET Framework 4.6.1+, and .NET Core 2.0+.

• Performance: We use lesser-known techniques for our native interop which makes our bindings blazing fast.
• Up-to-date: We've built Silk.NET around the latest versions of the Khronos specifications. This means that Silk.NET includes OpenGL 4.6 (and its NVIDIA ray-tracing extensions), OpenGLES 3.2.
• High-level utilities: We provide high-level abstractions around Windowing and Input APIs, which means you apps can run on any platform without changing a single line.
• Game-ready: Making games or game engines with Silk.NET is a breeze as you already have everything a game needs - Graphics, Audio, Input, and Windowing; all in one product!

We currently have 3 maintainers:

• Dylan P. from Ultz
• Aaron P. from Ultz
• Frederik A. from the open-source community

As well as 2 community members who we consult with to influence Silk.NET's design:

• devvoid, a Silk.NET contributor who basically wrote half the library
• BlackCentipede, a low-level genius/madman

• Make sure you have the .NET Core SDK installed
• Clone the repository
• Run generator.bat or generator.sh (to generate the bindings)
• Run dotnet build

Silk.NET uses and encourages Early Pull Requests. Please don't wait until you're done to open a PR!

1. Install Git and the .NET Core SDK
2. Fork Silk.NET
3. Create a branch on your fork.
4. Add an empty commit to start your work off (and let you open a PR): git commit --allow-empty -m "start of [thing you're working on]"
5. Open a Pull request with [WIP] in the title. Do this before you actually start working.
6. Make your commits in small, incremental steps with clear descriptions.
7. Tag a maintainer when you're done and ask for a review!

Nothing here yet, but don't worry - we're working on it.

Come chat with us on Discord!

Silk.NET is distributed under the very permissive MIT/X11 license. Note that some third party libraries such as AdvancedDLSupport are compatible with the MIT license under one or more custom agreements, but have additional conditions.