How to load an external / third-party static C/C++ library?

[willowell]

Hello! I read https://jank-lang.org/blog/2025-07-11-jank-is-cpp/ and I am interested to know: how does one load an external / third-party static C/C++ library with Jank?

For example, Raylib - how would you go about linking against / loading its static library and headers in a Jank program?

I read the blog post, but I'm not quite sure how linking against FTXUI works - I saw that it is vendored in the repo as a submodule though. Is Jank able to use FTXUI because of this?

I am very interested in Jank's potential for game dev, like a greenfield take on https://github.com/open-goal/jak-project !

[jeaye]

Hi. :) Thanks for the interest.

You can run jank with normal -I, -L, and -l flags to have it JIT link to both static and dynamic libs. It should feel very familiar to anyone using GCC or Clang.