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Silk.NET is your one-stop-shop for high-speed .NET multimedia, graphics, and compute; providing bindings to popular low-level APIs such as OpenGL, OpenCL, OpenAL, OpenXR, GLFW, SDL, Vulkan, Assimp, WebGPU, and DirectX.

Use Silk.NET to spruce up applications with cross-platform 3D graphics, audio, compute and haptics!

Silk.NET works on any .NET Standard 2.0 compliant platform, including .NET 6.0, Xamarin, .NET Framework 4.6.1+, and .NET Core 2.0+.

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Proud to be an official project under the benevolent .NET Foundation umbrella.

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Features

Performance

Having poured lots of hours into examining generated C# code and its JIT assembly, you can count on us to deliver blazing fast bindings with negligible overhead induced by Silk.NET!

<!-- # The team We currently have the following maintainers: - [Kai Jellinghaus](https://github.com/HurricanKai) [<img src="https://about.twitter.com/etc/designs/about2-twitter/public/img/favicon.ico" alt="Follow Kai on Twitter" width="16" />](https://twitter.com/intent/follow?screen_name=KJellinghaus) - [Thomas Mizrahi](https://github.com/ThomasMiz) - [Beyley Thomas](https://github.com/Beyley) In addition, the Silk.NET working group help drive larger user-facing changes providing key consultation from the perspective of dedicated users and professionals. # Building from source Prerequisites - **Must**: .NET 6 SDK - **Should**: [NUKE](https://nuke.build) (build system). Install using `dotnet tool install Nuke.GlobalTool --global` - **Should**: Android, iOS, and MAUI .NET 6 workloads (use `dotnet workload install android ios maccatalyst maui` to install them) - **Should**: Android SDK version 30 with NDK tools installed. On Windows, for best results this should be installed into `C:/ProgramData/Android/android-sdk`. - **Could**: Java JDK (for gradle) - **Could**: Visual Studio 2022 Community version 17.0 or later Instructions - Clone the repository (recursively) - Run build.sh, build.cmd, build.ps1, or `nuke compile`. - Use the DLLs. To get nupkgs you can use with NuGet instead, use `nuke pack`. There are more advanced build actions you can do too, such as FullBuild, Pack, FullPack, among others which you can view by doing `nuke --plan`. Note: Some .NET 6 workloads are only supported on Windows and macOS today. # Contributing Silk.NET uses and encourages [Early Pull Requests](https://medium.com/practical-blend/pull-request-first-f6bb667a9b6). Please don't wait until you're done to open a PR! 1. [Fork Silk.NET](https://github.com/dotnet/Silk.NET/fork) 2. Add an empty commit to a new branch to start your work off: `git commit --allow-empty -m "start of [thing you're working on]"` 3. Once you've pushed a commit, open a [**draft pull request**](https://github.blog/2019-02-14-introducing-draft-pull-requests/). Do this **before** you actually start working. 4. Make your commits in small, incremental steps with clear descriptions. 5. Tag a maintainer when you're done and ask for a review! The Silk.NET solution is **very large**. Learn about how you can combat this using our build process in [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md). --> <!-- --- <a href="https://www.jetbrains.com/?from=Silk.NET" align="right"><img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dotnet/Silk.NET/main/documentation/readme/jetbrains.svg" alt="JetBrains" class="logo-footer" width="72" align="left"> Special thanks to [JetBrains](https://www.jetbrains.com/?from=Silk.NET) for supporting us with open-source licenses for their IDEs. -->