cinder/Cinder

Cinder is a community-developed, free and open source library for professional-quality creative coding in C++.

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Cinder 0.9.4dev: libcinder.org

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Cinder is a peer-reviewed, free, open source C++ library for creative coding.

Please note that Cinder depends on a few submodules. The simplest way to clone it is:

git clone --recursive https://github.com/cinder/Cinder.git

You might also prefer one of our pre-packaged downloads.

Building Cinder

Debug:

cmake -B build
cmake --build build -j

Release:

cmake -B build -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
cmake --build build --config Release -j

This works on macOS, Windows, and Linux.

Cinder guides and reference documentation are available on the website.

Cinder supports macOS, Windows, and Linux. It requires a C++20 compiler: Xcode 11.3.1+ on Mac, Visual C++ 2022+ on Windows.

Cinder is released under the Modified BSD License. Please visit our website for more information.

Also be sure to check out the User Forum.

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Code review

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Keijiro Takahashi

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