* Add a new GodotInstance GDCLASS that provides startup and iteration commands to control a Godot instance.
* Adds a libgodot_create_godot_instance entry point that creates a new Godot instance and returns a GodotInstance object.
* Adds a libgodot_destroy_godot_instance entry point that destroys the Godot instance.
Sample Apps: https://github.com/migeran/libgodot_project
Developed by [Migeran](https://migeran.com)
Sponsors & Acknowledgements:
* Initial development sponsored by [Smirk Software](https://www.smirk.gg/)
* Rebasing to Godot 4.3 and further development sponsored by [Xibbon Inc.](https://xibbon.com)
* The GDExtension registration of the host process & build system changes were based
on @Faolan-Rad's LibGodot PR: https://github.com/godotengine/godot/pull/72883
* Thanks to Ben Rog-Wilhelm (Zorbathut) for creating a smaller, minimal version for easier review.
* Thanks to Ernest Lee (iFire) for his support
Co-Authored-By: Gabor Koncz <gabor.koncz@migeran.com>
Co-Authored-By: Ben Rog-Wilhelm <zorba-github@pavlovian.net>
- Implements the concept of GDExtension loaders that can be used to customize how GDExtensions are loaded and initialized.
- Moves the parsing of `.gdextension` config files to the new `GDExtensionLibraryLoader`.
- `GDExtensionManager` is now meant to be the main way to load/unload extensions and can optionally take a `GDExtensionLoader`.
- `EditorFileSystem` avoids unloading extensions if the file still exists, this should prevent unloading extensions that are outside the user project.
As many open source projects have started doing it, we're removing the
current year from the copyright notice, so that we don't need to bump
it every year.
It seems like only the first year of publication is technically
relevant for copyright notices, and even that seems to be something
that many companies stopped listing altogether (in a version controlled
codebase, the commits are a much better source of date of publication
than a hardcoded copyright statement).
We also now list Godot Engine contributors first as we're collectively
the current maintainers of the project, and we clarify that the
"exclusive" copyright of the co-founders covers the timespan before
opensourcing (their further contributions are included as part of Godot
Engine contributors).
Also fixed "cf." Frenchism - it's meant as "refer to / see".
Non-exhaustive list of case-sensitive renames:
GDExtension -> GDNative
GDNATIVE -> GDEXTENSION
gdextension -> gdnative
ExtensionExtension ->Extension (for where there was GDNativeExtension)
EXTENSION_EXTENSION ->EXTENSION (for where there was GDNATIVE_EXTENSION)
gdnlib -> gdextension
gdn_interface -> gde_interface
gdni -> gde_interface
