I’m looking for ways to embed Godot into native desktop Windows applications, frameworks, or the native Windows API

whiletrue111 · December 19, 2024, 8:23am

Godot Version

4.3

Question

Hello everyone,
I’m looking for ways to embed Godot into native desktop applications or frameworks.

Is there a way to embed Godot into frameworks like Qt, wxWidgets, or directly into the native Windows Desktop API?

Sauermann · December 19, 2024, 9:30am

This is a feature, that has been requested for some time.

See here for reference:

github.com/godotengine/godot-proposals

Add a build-time option to compile Godot as a shared library (for use in other languages)

opened 03:40AM - 11 Feb 23 UTC

Faolan-Rad

topic:core topic:buildsystem

### Describe the project you are working on I am developing an opensource netwo…rked VR game engine in C# called on [RhubarbVR](https://github.com/RhubarbVR/RhubarbVR) which uses Godot more as a rendering system because I have my own physics, networking, and ECS system which allows me to run rhubarb completely separate from Godot ### Describe the problem or limitation you are having in your project As a C# devloper, I would like to have more control over the DotNet runtime which will fix a lot of bugs using Nuget libraries that have native requirements, and also would like android support with C# I also think a lot of game engines put too much effort into trying to run .net or mono themselves and start getting performance and platform support problems and other strange problems. When you can let it be used by the systems made by the DotNet community and Microsoft ### Describe the feature / enhancement and how it helps to overcome the problem or limitation Make Godot compile as a shared library which allows you to use pinvoke in C# and allows you to run in any C# runtime which allows you to use DotNet Aot for faster speeds and also allows you to use DotNet 6 android or even can use C# wasm implementation with Godot ### Describe how your proposal will work, with code, pseudo-code, mock-ups, and/or diagrams you run ``scons library_type=shared_library`` which will give you a library that you can use with any language that runs C libraries how you bind into Godot is you call libgodot_bind to give the function pointer to your GDExstintion entry point and also optional scene tree load function pointer which can load in the nodes without having a project file. Then for the LibGodot to work is having a GDExstintion implementation and just give it the entry point function after you have loaded the library [Work in progress Implementation](https://github.com/godotengine/godot/pull/72883) ### If this enhancement will not be used often, can it be worked around with a few lines of script? It might not be used that often if people have to compile themselves but if the LibGodotSharp binding was set up on NuGet I can see a lot of C# developers of software using Godot as a UI library ### Is there a reason why this should be core and not an add-on in the asset library? It adds another compiled option to Godot which makes Godot compile as a library

Currently someone is working on implementing this:

github.com/godotengine/godot

LibGodot with GDExtension

godotengine:master ← RhubarbVR:LibGodot

opened 10:57AM - 08 Feb 23 UTC

Faolan-Rad

+358 -60

LibGodot is a system to allows Godot to be compiled as a library and connected i…nto it using GDExtensions by giving a function pointer to the entry point of a GDExtension implementation before starting Godot. LibGodot adds language support for languages that have C support but can not becompiled into a shared library. LibGodot allows the use of different C# runtimes allowing dotnetAOT compilation, C# android support, and C# web support. LibGodot also allows Godot to be embedded in other applications like Blender.

whiletrue111 · December 19, 2024, 10:16am

Thanks , but i dont understand if it doable or its just hack