gogre3d - using ogre3d in go
Posted: Fri Aug 31, 2012 9:07 am
I'm starting a toy game project, and I'm using go (http://golang.org/)
I think go is an interesting language for games since it's similar in performance to C, yet very concise and has a high signal/noise ratio. It interops nicely with C. Since ogre does not have a "normal" C interface, I wrapped some of the basic logic myself, quick and dirty for experimentation's sake.
The experimental code:
https://github.com/galaktor/gogre3d
Not very clean or idiomatic, but it's worth looking at the code:
using gogre3d: https://github.com/galaktor/gogre3d/blo ... r/runit.go
go wrapper: https://github.com/galaktor/gogre3d/blo ... gogre3d.go
c wrapper: https://github.com/galaktor/gogre3d/blo ... /ogrec.cpp
Disclaimer: I'm not at all an expert C/C++ programmer, and I'm just learning go - don't expect any miracles here
For my purposes at the moment, manually maintaining a custom slim wrapper is sufficient. I am curious however if anybody else is interested in using ogre in go. We might be able to combine efforts and make it more comprehensive.
To wrap c++ for go, it's common to use SWIG. I know that SWIG has been used for other, now pretty much deprecated wrappers (OgreDotNet, PyOgre). I don't know SWIG very well, nor the gritty details of the Ogre code base, so it's hard for me to understand why SWIG was a problem. If anybody here can give me some better understanding of pros/cons of SWIG with ogre, I'd appreciate it! I'll play around a bit with it myself, but I won't spend much time on it just for myself. Maybe if there's more interest, and possibly some support.
So, bottom line: anybody else interested in getting ogre working in golang, and willing to help make it happen?
Sorry if this is the wrong spot for this post, I couldn't find a good place in the "Addons" forum...
I think go is an interesting language for games since it's similar in performance to C, yet very concise and has a high signal/noise ratio. It interops nicely with C. Since ogre does not have a "normal" C interface, I wrapped some of the basic logic myself, quick and dirty for experimentation's sake.
The experimental code:
https://github.com/galaktor/gogre3d
Not very clean or idiomatic, but it's worth looking at the code:
using gogre3d: https://github.com/galaktor/gogre3d/blo ... r/runit.go
go wrapper: https://github.com/galaktor/gogre3d/blo ... gogre3d.go
c wrapper: https://github.com/galaktor/gogre3d/blo ... /ogrec.cpp
Disclaimer: I'm not at all an expert C/C++ programmer, and I'm just learning go - don't expect any miracles here
For my purposes at the moment, manually maintaining a custom slim wrapper is sufficient. I am curious however if anybody else is interested in using ogre in go. We might be able to combine efforts and make it more comprehensive.
To wrap c++ for go, it's common to use SWIG. I know that SWIG has been used for other, now pretty much deprecated wrappers (OgreDotNet, PyOgre). I don't know SWIG very well, nor the gritty details of the Ogre code base, so it's hard for me to understand why SWIG was a problem. If anybody here can give me some better understanding of pros/cons of SWIG with ogre, I'd appreciate it! I'll play around a bit with it myself, but I won't spend much time on it just for myself. Maybe if there's more interest, and possibly some support.
So, bottom line: anybody else interested in getting ogre working in golang, and willing to help make it happen?
Sorry if this is the wrong spot for this post, I couldn't find a good place in the "Addons" forum...