Windows

Download the SDK bundle for windows-amd64 and put main.c beside the folders it unzipped:

my_game/
├── include/
│   └── natiny.h
├── lib/
│   └── libnatiny_windows_amd64.a
└── main.c

#include "natiny.h"
#include <stddef.h>

static NatinyWindow window;

static void frame(float dt, void* userdata)
{
    (void)dt;
    (void)userdata;

    natiny_window_bind(window);
    natiny_render_clear(0.07f, 0.09f, 0.13f, 1.0f);
    natiny_render_set_color(0.66f, 0.76f, 0.22f, 1.0f);
    natiny_render_rectangle(360.0f, 260.0f, 80.0f, 80.0f);
    natiny_window_unbind();
}

int main(void)
{
    if (!natiny_backend_init(NATINY_BACKEND_AUTO)) {
        return 1;
    }

    window = natiny_window_create("Hello, Natiny", 800, 600);
    if (!window) {
        natiny_backend_shutdown();
        return 1;
    }

    natiny_backend_loop(frame, NULL);
    natiny_backend_shutdown();
    return 0;
}

Compile and link:

clang -O2 -Iinclude -c main.c -o main.o
clang -O2 -static main.o lib/libnatiny_windows_amd64.a -o app.exe \
    -ld3d12 -ldxgi -ld3dcompiler -ldxguid -lopengl32 \
    -lgdi32 -luser32 -lshell32 -ldwmapi -lpthread

app.exe

A dark window opens with a green square in it.

libnatiny_windows_amd64.a is the whole engine - GLFW, the shader compiler, the mixer and the physics solver are already inside it, so there is nothing else of Natiny's to link. It is plain C with no C++ runtime anywhere, so a C compiler is all you need.

Keep -static. Without it the executable imports libwinpthread-1.dll out of your toolchain and will not start on a machine that has no toolchain installed. Everything else on that line is part of Windows.

One archive carries every backend this platform can run - Direct3D 12, Vulkan and OpenGL. NATINY_BACKEND_AUTO picks Direct3D 12; pass NATINY_BACKEND_VULKAN or NATINY_BACKEND_OPENGL to choose. Vulkan is opened at run time rather than imported, so a machine with no Vulkan driver still starts and still runs the other two.

The SDK README in the bundle has the same commands for arm64 and i386, and for linking natiny_windows_amd64.dll instead of the archive.