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-# Mach engine [](https://github.com/hexops/mach/actions)
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-## ⚠️ Project status: in-development ⚠️
+## Join the conversation
-Under heavy development, not ready for use currently. [Follow @machengine on Twitter](https://twitter.com/machengine) for updates.
+Our community exists [on Matrix chat](https://matrix.to/#/#hexops:matrix.org), join in and help build the future of game engines & graphics in Zig!
-## News
+You can also follow [@machengine on Twitter](https://twitter.com/machengine) for updates.
-You can read about major Mach engine developments at [devlog.hexops.com](https://devlog.hexops.com/categories/mach/):
+## ⚠️ in-development ⚠️
-* [Perfecting GLFW for Zig, and finding lurking undefined behavior that went unnoticed for 6+ years](https://devlog.hexops.com/2021/perfecting-glfw-for-zig-and-finding-undefined-behavior)
-* [Mach engine: The future of graphics (with Zig)](https://devlog.hexops.com/2021/mach-engine-the-future-of-graphics-with-zig)
-
-## Zero fuss installation & cross compilation
-
-Mach is built from the ground up to support zero fuss installation & cross compilation, **only `zig` and `git` are needed to build from any OS and produce binaries for every platform.**
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-If you've ever worked with game engines in C, C++, Rust, Go, or any other language you've probably run into issues at one point getting the right system dependencies installed, whether it be library versions, compilers, system SDKs, X11/GLFW/SDL C dependencies, etc. With Mach, none of this is needed - it's all sorted out for you automagically.
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-Mach is able to do this thanks to Zig being a C/C++ compiler, Zig's linker `zld` supporting macOS cross compilation, and us doing the heavy lifting of packaging the required [system SDK libraries](https://github.com/hexops/sdk-macos-11.3) and [C sources](glfw/upstream/) for every dependency we need so our Zig build scripts can simply `git clone` them for you as needed for the target OS you're building for, completely automagically.
+Under heavy development, not ready for use currently.
## Supported platforms
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* 🏃 Planned or in progress.
* ⚠️ Implemented, but has known issues (e.g. bugs in Zig.)
-## Libraries for all
+## Subrepositories / projects
Whether you're interested in using all of Mach, or just some parts of it, you get to choose.
Our libraries all aim to have the same zero-fuss installation, cross compilation, and platform
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* [mach-glfw](https://github.com/hexops/mach-glfw): Ziggified GLFW bindings with 100% API coverage
-## About sub-repositories
+## Contributing
-In this repository, we maintain Mach as a monorepo. We pull in all commits from our library sub-repositories listed above using [`git subtree`](https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/git-subtree):
-
-```
-git subtree pull --prefix glfw https://github.com/hexops/mach-glfw main
-```
-
-This pulls in all commits from our sub-repositories, and effectively leads to a full history of all Mach development across all core repositories.
-
-Pull requests can be made to any repository (we synchronize both ways via `git subtree pull` and `git subtree push`.)
+Mach is maintained as a monorepo. When changed are merged to this repository, we use some git fu to pick out the commits to subdirectories and push them ot sub-repositories. For example, commits to the `glfw/` directory also get pushed to the separate [mach-glfw](https://github.com/hexops/mach-glfw) repository after being merged here.
There are only two requirements:
-1. Pull requests in sub-repositories must have a commit message prefix, e.g. `glfw: ` to keep our monorepo history nicer - we generally squash merge pull requests so this is not an issue.
-2. Pull requests to this repository may not change multiple sub-repositories in the same commit (e.g. a commit to `glfw/` should not also include changes to `webgpu/`, to avoid confusion.)
-
-## Sponsors
-
-If you like Mach engine, or my other work, you may [sponsor me on GitHub](https://github.com/sponsors/slimsag). This will make my day, it's a huge vote of confidence and I really appreciate your support!
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-### Silver sponsors
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-### Bronze sponsors
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+1. Pull requests to sub-repositories must be sent to this monorepo, not to the sub-repository itself - to avoid some annoying merge conflicts that can arise.
+2. Individual commits may not change multiple sub-repositories at the same time (e.g. a commit to `glfw/` cannot also include changes to `gpu/`, to avoid confusion.)