Easiest way to read the input from an USB gamepad crossplatform?

Hi,

I would like to know what would be the easyist way to read an USB gamepad with go as input for a little game?

It would be nice if the code would run crossplatform ARM Linux and AMD64 Mac OS..

I know there are lib usb binding like https://github.com/kylelemons/gousb and https://github.com/boombuler/hid

I would like something which is native go and activly maintained ... any recommenditions the whole project is just for learning purposes..

I built mine on top of sdl: https://github.com/tanema/amore/tree/master/joystick I made most packages in my game lib independent so you could theoretically use it by itself but I think you would also need an SDL context running. Not exactly native Go either since it uses cgo for sdl.

There are no native go usb support libraries, afaik. It should be doable to do a c2go + a lot of work on libusb to create one, but there's a lot of code there to deal with.

Depends on what you are going for, but... either SDL, glfw should be quite fine. (You can see a glfw example in Zombies on Ice)

PS: as requested, I'm author of that code.

It might be polite to mention this is a project of yours that you are plugging

Wasn't intended as a plug, but added a note nevertheless.