Godot Swift GDExtension example

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Introduction

In this example, reproduce the tutorial of the GodotSwift community: Meet SwiftGodot, tool version information:

• Godot 4.2.x
• Swift 5.10

Features

• GDExtension plugin based on Swift
  • Perform custom swift code in godot
  • Export node's properties
  • Emit godot signal
  • Connect other node's signal
• Multi-platform exports
  • Windows
  • MacOS

How to use it

To use SwiftGodot, you need to compile our plugin as a dynamic library, and then declare our dynamic library to the Godot Editor. I'll use MacOS as an example to illustrate that the development process for Linux and Windows platforms is similar.

Compilation

Compile our plugins into debug and release versions, with the debug library for debugging and the release library for tracking game usage.

cd SimpleRunnerDriver
# Compile the Swift code in debug mode
# This mode is easy to debug, but it comes with a performance penalty
swift build -c debug
# Compile the Swift code in release mode
swift build -c release

Install dynamic libraries and write with gdextension files

The compiled product is located in SimpleRunnerDriver/.build/debug and SimpleRunnerDriver/.build/release, and we need to use two dynamic libraries:

• libSimpleRunnerDriver.dylib: The plugin we actually wrote
• libSwiftGodot.dylib: The godot binding that our plugin depends on The target location of the dynamic library needs to correspond to the writing of the gdextension file, please refer to the documentation for more information about gdextension

Now we need to write the 'gdextension' file In this example, only the dynamic libraries for 'Windows x86_64' and 'MacOS arm64' are actually used

Note: The two libraries are processed on the Windows platform, and other *.dll under C:{your_swift_install_dir}Swiftruntime-developmentusrbin*.dll are also required

[configuration]
entry_symbol = "swift_entry_point"
compatibility_minimum = 4.2

[libraries]
macos.debug = "res://bin/arm64-apple-macosx-debug/libSimpleRunnerDriver.dylib"
macos.release = "res://bin/arm64-apple-macosx-release/libSimpleRunnerDriver.dylib"
windows.debug.x86_32 = "res://bin/MyFirstGame"
windows.release.x86_32 = "res://bin/MyFirstGame"
windows.debug.x86_64 = "res://bin/x86_64-windows-debug"
windows.release.x86_64 = "res://bin/x86_64-windows-release"
linux.debug.x86_64 = "res://bin/MyFirstGame"
linux.release.x86_64 = "res://bin/MyFirstGame"
linux.debug.arm64 = "res://bin/MyFirstGame"
linux.release.arm64 = "res://bin/MyFirstGame"
linux.debug.rv64 = "res://bin/MyFirstGame"
linux.release.rv64 = "res://bin/MyFirstGame"
android.debug.x86_64 = "res://bin/MyFirstGame"
android.release.x86_64 = "res://bin/MyFirstGame"
android.debug.arm64 = "res://bin/MyFirstGame"
android.release.arm64 = "res://bin/MyFirstGame"



[dependencies]
macos.debug = {"res://bin/arm64-apple-macosx-debug/libSwiftGodot.dylib" : ""}
macos.release = {"res://bin/arm64-apple-macosx-release/libSwiftGodot.dylib" : ""}
windows.debug.x86_64 = {"res://bin/x86_64-windows-debug/libSwiftGodot.dll" : ""}
windows.release.x86_64 = {"res://bin/x86_64-windows-release/libSwiftGodot.dll" : ""}

Use extensions

At this point, we can go back to Godot, and when we add nodes, we can search for MainLevel and PlayerController