From: David Uhden Collado <daviduhden@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [NEW] devel/nuklear
To: ports@openbsd.org
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2026 08:55:00 +0000

David Uhden Collado wrote:
> Hello ports@,
> 
> Please find attached a new port for Nuklear 4.13.3:
> 
> devel/nuklear
> 
> Nuklear is a lightweight immediate-mode GUI toolkit written in ANSI C:
> 
> https://github.com/Immediate-Mode-UI/Nuklear
> 
> The port targets the latest upstream release, 4.13.3:
> 
> https://github.com/Immediate-Mode-UI/Nuklear/releases/tag/v4.13.3
> 
> Nuklear is implemented as a single C header and is designed to be
> embedded directly into applications. It focuses only on the GUI layer
> and deliberately provides no window-system, input, or rendering backend.
> 
> As a result, Nuklear itself does not depend on X11, Wayland, OpenGL,
> SDL, GLFW, or any other graphics/windowing library. Applications choose
> and provide whichever platform and rendering backend they need.
> 
> The library is written in C89 and emphasizes portability, low memory
> usage, and minimal dependencies. It supports UTF-8, customizable memory
> management, optional font baking and vertex-buffer output, and has no
> required global or hidden state.
> 
> Version 4.13.3 contains several fixes and usability improvements,
> including fixes for option widgets becoming unticked when not visible,
> float conversion in sliders, SDL3 renderer handling, Vulkan/Retina
> framebuffer scaling, and several demo and documentation improvements.
> 
> Since Nuklear is a single-header library, the OpenBSD port is
> intentionally simple. There is no build step and no runtime dependency
> set: the package installs:
> 
> include/nuklear.h
> share/doc/nuklear/LICENSE
> 
> Applications enable the implementation by defining NK_IMPLEMENTATION in
> exactly one translation unit before including nuklear.h. Optional
> feature defines must remain consistent between translation units that
> include the header.
> 
> The package is architecture-independent and therefore uses:
> 
> PKG_ARCH = *
> 
> There is no upstream test target applicable to this header-only package,
> so the port sets NO_TEST.
> 
> Nuklear is available under either the MIT license or public domain; the
> embedded ProggyClean font is MIT licensed.
> 
> Thank you for your time and consideration.
> 
> Best regards,
> David.
ping