Raylib is a nice compact and very portable multimedia library. It manage hardware acceleration and compatibilities problems.

We will see here how to build it (in may 2025).

Building it

• General information about building it on GNU/Linux, including installing dependencies

git clone https://github.com/raysan5/raylib
cd raylib
mkdir build && cd build

curl -O raylib-5.5.tar.gz https://github.com/raysan5/raylib/archive/refs/tags/5.5.tar.gz

By default examples are build, but examples need rlight sub lib

raylib/examples/others/easings_testbed.c:20:10: fatal error: reasings.h: No such file or directory
[…]
raylib/examples/models/models_loading_vox.c:25:10: fatal error: rlights.h: No such file or directory
[…]
raylib/examples/others/embedded_files_loading.c:20:10: fatal error: resources/audio_data.h: No such file or directory

So first time it must be build without examples. cmake -LAH allow to found available cmake option in general and specific to the project.

 cmake -LAH ..

In the output you can see all the options.

To build without examples:

cmake -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON -DBUILD_EXAMPLES=OFF -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=/usr ..
make -j0
sudo make install

Then you can rebuild them with examples.