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[insomniacUNDERSCORElemon]

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[endragor]

godot-nim by itself is just a Nim library. It doesn't do anything out of the ordinary when you use it.

godot-nim-stub provides an example (a rather basic one) of how to build your Nim project in a way that Godot expects it. You can modify it to your needs, name libraries differently or even have multiple libraries in your own project. That project was meant to provide a basic template that you can expand as needed.

As about the specific questions here:

1. You cannot package a native dynamic library into another file. OS APIs expect it to be a separate file. The only exception is iOS where dynamic libraries are not allowed and so GDNative libraries are linked statically. The last time I checked GDNative didn't support static linking for other platforms, but things may have changed since then.

2. I haven't looked into exporting Nim projects for HTML5. You should look into how it's done for C and replicate the same steps for Nim. Nim supports overriding the commands used for compiling C files, which may come in handy here.

3. For exporting to multiple platforms I'd recommend making a task like nake package html5 that does the necessary preparations, compiles the library for Godot, and then invokes Godot to export the project.

[insomniacUNDERSCORElemon]

To be clear on one of the questions: you can copy the nim-lang library from 1 exported project over to another and it will carry over logic (most notably window settings if set via nim). It might be interesting if 2 games were developed similarly enough that swapping files like that would produce a playable (though odd) result. Though I suspect the more common issue will be people updating/replacing .pck files and not also the libraries, and thus not actually fixing code errors.

So It'd be more clear if it were nim_gamelogic_OSbits.libext (or something like that) as default instead. Though sure, I do see how I could do that myself in nakefile.nim in your stub project (which yes, I have used obviously). EDIT: Actually the gdnlib file needs to be edited as well

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The other stuff I don't know where I'd even start (a while ago I wanted to test Bunnymark and couldn't get C++ bindings installed), I'm not far enough for it to really matter that much (well, I've now done 1 project that I tried to export to HTML5) but it'd be nice to have actual info/directions.