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Handmade Hero Day 011 - The Basics of Platform API Design

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Game developmentSystems programmingGame programmingAPI design

An in-depth session designing a clean, portable platform API layer separating game code from the operating system.

Day 011 of coding on Handmade Hero. See handmadehero.org for details.

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What people say. Recommended as part of a series for learning how to design portable platform layers and load dynamic libraries in C.

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On “Is there any portable method to create and load dynamic libraries in c? What would be the best possible alternative if that isn't possible?”

The Handmade Hero video series may interest you. Especially the first 25 days (hours) or so. Skip the intro to C and skip the stuff about basic graphics and sound output if you like: link to this video Possibly of particular interest to you: * Handmade Hero Day 011 - The Basics of Platform API Design * Handmade Hero Day 021 - Loading Game Code Dynamically * Handmade Hero Day 022 - Instantaneous Live Code Editing