A very quick test (base) Rons-Excellent-Macbook-Pro:snake rminnich$ GOOS=plan9 GOARCH=amd64 go build . package github.com/hajimehoshi/ebiten/v2/examples/snake imports github.com/hajimehoshi/ebiten/v2 imports github.com/hajimehoshi/ebiten/v2/internal/inputstate imports github.com/hajimehoshi/ebiten/v2/internal/ui imports github.com/hajimehoshi/ebiten/v2/internal/glfw: build constraints exclude all Go files in /Users/rminnich/Documents/ebiten/internal/glfw (base) Rons-Excellent-Macbook-Pro:snake rminnich$ pwd /Users/rminnich/Documents/ebiten/examples/snake
So there's a glfw issue, whatever that is :-) On Thu, Nov 27, 2025 at 8:24 PM ron minnich <[email protected]> wrote: > I've found Go to be the post portable language if I need to span the space > of Plan 9, OSX, BSD, and Linux. Hence my interest in ebiten. > > If somebody got this working it would be a great talk for IWP9 > > On Thu, Nov 27, 2025 at 7:38 PM Clout Tolstoy <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Turns out raylib started using a few too many c99 features :( >> >> On Thu, Nov 27, 2025, 12:51 PM Clout Tolstoy <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Another engine that looked like it could have potential on plan9 is >>> raylib: www.raylib.com. It's in c89, the thing that stopped me was >>> that I wasn't sure I also wanted to port opengl, and I'm not sure how to do >>> either of those things on plan9. I think there might be a tinygl port (or >>> attempted) somewhere but I've yet to find it and test it. >>> >>> Maybe it's an ape or npe thing and I personally haven't gotten to the >>> point where I'm comfortable building with either of those toolkits. >>> >>> I >>> >>> On Thu, Nov 27, 2025, 11:43 AM Clout Tolstoy <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Yes. >>>> >>>> Game dev could be pretty cool on plan9. >>>> >>>> I've been using love2d on Linux to write a frontend GUI for bettercap >>>> and metasploit and have been wanting to explore this concept more on plan9. >>>> >>>> Plan9 seems like a good target for a game engine to be a application >>>> widget tool kit and have a bunch of backend remote services. >>>> >>>> It's not something I could port, but would be happy to test it and play >>>> around. >>>> >>>> On Thu, Nov 27, 2025, 9:42 AM ron minnich <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> https://github.com/hajimehoshi/ebiten >>>>> >>>> *9fans <https://9fans.topicbox.com/latest>* / 9fans / see discussions >> <https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans> + participants >> <https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/members> + delivery options >> <https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription> Permalink >> <https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T33e3d4a8f04a347f-Mcd9bbb0cc23ce7e25dd20256> >> ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T33e3d4a8f04a347f-M048a1a938abb560493d71ffe Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
