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A desktop/CLI tool from raylib's creator that scaffolds a raylib C project from a source file, generating build systems (Makefile, VS2022, VSCode, build scripts) and GitHub Actions CI, ready to push as a repo. It's for raylib beginners who've outgrown a single .c file and don't want to hand-write cross-platform build configs.
Built by the person who maintains raylib itself, so the generated Makefile and CI matrix (Windows/Linux/macOS/WebAssembly) reflect how raylib is actually built upstream, not a guess at it. Ships both a GUI and a scriptable CLI (--input, --rpc, --out flags) so project generation can be automated rather than clicked through. Self-contained ~3MB binary with no runtime dependencies (raylib/raygui/rini/tinyfiledialogs are statically built in), so there's nothing to install to run the tool itself.
The author's own README flags that the generated build.bat is Windows-only and the VSCode task config assumes the compiler is already on PATH — the output isn't as portable as the tool that produces it. It's a one-shot generator: once you've scaffolded the project, keeping the build system in sync as needs grow falls on you (or you reach for the separate rpb tool, meaning a second tool to learn). No test suite for the generator logic itself, so correctness is really validated by whether the output projects compile, not by anything in CI. Responsive support beyond community issues is explicitly pitched as a paid email add-on, which tells you how much free maintenance attention to expect for edge cases.
We read the README, the directory tree and a key source file in October 2026. Nobody pays to be listed. How we judge →