SFML bindings (information for the new website)

[Laurent]

Hi

I open this thread to collect information about all the SFML bindings that exist, for the corresponding page on the new website.

If you wrote a SFML binding, please tell me the following few pieces of information:
- name of the binding (and logo if you have one)
- language
- name of the author (and e-mail address, if you want)
- website

I only build a list of bindings based on SFML 2. However, I accept inactive/abandonned bindings -- as long as they are based on SFML 2. Of course, the binding must be complete and working.

[pdinklag]

JSFML is for Java 7 and based on SFML 2.0.

The latest test release based on a snapshot from early February should be working on all "major" operating systems (Windows, Mac OS/X and at least Debian-based Linuxes, needs a lot more testing and feedback). It currently lacks updates, but that's because I'm in a exam-heavy phase.

The API is mostly complete and fully functional (as tested) and only lacks SFML's February and March changes. Future changes for a release candidate will face performance and cross-platform compatibility.

The website is http://www.jsfml.org/
The design and logo (see attachment) might be changed once a new SFML logo has been determined. I wanted it to look a bit like Oracle's Red, it hasn't much to do with the original SFML one.

Author: Patrick Dinklage (pdinklag at gmail dot com)
Mac OS/X Support by Hiura / mantognini



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[Haze]

I open this thread to collect information about all the SFML bindings that exist, for the corresponding page on the new website.

Authors of bindings for SFML may not browse the forum on a regular basis and miss this thread.
Maybe you should contact them yourself if you want an up-to-date report.

Anyway, here's a quick list of SFML bindings I've found, with contact info:

• Python
     
  • pysfml-cython: https://github.com/bastienleonard/pysfml-cython
              Active (last update 14 weeks ago)
              Author: Bastien Léonard, email on github profile
  • python-sfml: https://github.com/Sonkun/python-sfml
              Active (last update 20 days ago)
              Author: Jonathan De Wachter, email on github profile
   
• Ruby
     
  • rbSFML: https://github.com/Groogy/rbSFML
              Active (last update 6 days ago)
              Author: Henrik Valter Vogelius Hansson, email on github profile
   
• Go
     
  • GoSFML2: https://bitbucket.org/krepa098/gosfml2/overview
              Active (last update 1 month ago)
              Author: krepa098, email in license file
  • go-sfml: https://github.com/drhodes/go-sfml
              Last update 6 months ago
              Author: Derek Rhodes, email on github profile
   
• OCaml
     
  • OCaml-SFML: http://ocaml-sfml.forge.ocamlcore.org/
              Last update 8 months ago, still uses SFML 1.x API.
              Authors: see README file
   
• Haskell
     
  • SFML---Haskell-bindings: https://github.com/Berengal/SFML---Haskell-bindings/
              seems inactive, last update 2 years ago and still uses SFML 1.x API.
              Author: Sjur Gjøstein Karevoll, see info file
   
• D
     
  • SFML-D: https://github.com/krzat/SFML-D
              Last update 5 monts ago
              Author: krzat (forum profile)
  • A new binding for SFML2, as part of project Derelict 3
              See this forum post for more informations.
   
• Ada
     
  • ASFML: https://github.com/danva994/ASFML-1.6
              Last update 4 months ago, but still uses SFML 1.x API.
              Author: dava994 (forum profile)
   

[Laurent]

Awesome, thanks

[jDralliam]

Ocsfml is an Ocaml binding of SFML 2.
It is almost complete, but there are still some TODO comments in the code...

Website: https://github.com/JoeDralliam/Ocsfml
Authors: Jun Maillard, Kenji Maillard

[aldacron]

Already mentioned above, but here's the full info:

DerelictSFML2 (part of the Derelict 3 bindings collection)
D Programming Language
Mike Parker (aldacron@gmail.com)
https://github.com/aldacron/Derelict3/

[Groogy]

Haze kind of already covered me but I have a logo as well.

Name: rbSFML
Language: Ruby (Only two implementations supported so far, MRI and Rubinius)
Status: Active (Whenever I have time)
Author: Henrik Valter Vogelius Hansson, groogy@groogy.se
Logo: http://groogy.se/mainsite/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/1137918274bf18acff14d4c726ae5efd9d5648ae.png
Website: www.groogy.se

The website is not dedicated to rbSFML entirely, it's my portfolio website so it also contains updates for rbSFML. Like recent post would be that rbSFML now supports Rubinius. If you feel I should create a dedicated page to rbSFML I could do that as well.

Also thanks to the one that did the logo for me I think it was David if I remember correctly

[krzat]

SFML-D: https://github.com/krzat/SFML-D
Last update 5 monts ago
Author: krzat

Info: Not active. I tested only basic things(and only on windows).

[Sonkun]

I confirm for my bindings and if it hasn't been updated for 20 days, that's because I'm busy with other tasks related to it such porting other SFML-based library to make them compatible with the bindings.

[Laurent]

Info: Not active. I tested only basic things(and only on windows).

Do you think it is worth mentioning? Is it something that can be useful to D programers, especially compared to the other D binding?

[daemon]

GoSFML2
*Language: Go
*Author: krepa098
*Website: https://bitbucket.org/krepa098/gosfml2, https://bitbucket.org/krepa098/gosfml2-samples (samples)
*Status: Currently close to no progress as I'm working on an other project. I keep it compilable with sfml-git though.

[Sonkun]

Name: python-sfml
Language: Python
Status: Active
Author: Jonathan De Wachter & Edwin Marshall
Website: www.python-sfml.org

[krzat]

Info: Not active. I tested only basic things(and only on windows).

Do you think it is worth mentioning? Is it something that can be useful to D programers, especially compared to the other D binding?

You can keep it on list until another user(http://en.sfml-dev.org/forums/index.php?topic=9387.msg74976#msg74976) finishes his binding.

Derelict3 is just wrapper for CSFML functions, so mine may be more useful.

[Laurent]

Ok, I'll put it in the list.

[ocaml-sfml]

Name: ocaml-sfml
Language: OCaml
Website: http://ocaml-sfml.forge.ocamlcore.org/
Status: Active
Main-Author: Florent Monnier
Contributor: Jérémie Dimino

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The very last version is not in the svn, it's a snapshot in the download directory.
On the website, clic on the link:
  "other downloads (older and experimental)"

the most recent snapshot is currently:
ocaml-sfml-2.0RC-git-2012-10-09.tgz

but my local version is much more recent than that.
(I'll try to make a more recent snapshot soon(tm))

I'm coming here almost every week, in order to know when I can release it.
I would like that there is a second RC, so that I could tell to the users in the README that the snapshot is made to compile against the second RC, but I've noticed that there are still (minor) API changes in the SFML's git.

I don't know if Jérémie Dimino should be cite as a contributor, here is what he has done:

- Added caml_(enter|leave)_blocking_section() around functions
  sfWindow_Display() and sfRenderWindow_Display() by Jérémie Dimino.

- sfRenderWindow_CreateFromHandle() wrapped by Jérémie Dimino.

(not that much but very valueable ones)

ocaml-sfml for 1.6 was using only CSFML.
ocaml-sfml for 2.0 can be compiled either with SFML or CSFML (choose at compile time)

Also I provided in the past tutorials for the SFML website (in the style of the Python tutorial) that never got introduced on the website.
Please tell me if you want something for the next 2.0 website. But if I'm doing something please don't send it to dave null.

Also I know that other people have made another ocaml sfml binding, if I'm writting tutorials (actually adapting the ones I've already made from 1.6 to 2.0) I don't mind at all giving the examples of code for both ocaml bindings (but again I would prefer not working for dave null).

the interface for sfml 1.6 was this one:
http://ocaml-sfml.forge.ocamlcore.org/doc/

here is the interface for my local copy (that I'm waiting to release):
http://ocaml-sfml.forge.ocamlcore.org/doc2/

The Oo_sfml_* modules at the end provide the same than the other modules, but trying to do it in an OO style.
I'm planing to try to make the interface of this OO part more similar to ocsfml, but that's not done yet.

Cheers!