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The current way of setting up the library is not platform independent, automatic or self-contained. The setup.jl script requires at least a globally installed git and GNU make, which is available on Windows only with MinGW. Even then, depending on your environment (e.g. Windows x64), it still may break by an arbitrary error on raylib's build system.

Instead, I would suggest using the Raylib_jll package, which already provides autogenerated binaries for all platforms.

Raylib_jll can be added by using using Pkg; Pkg.add("Raylib_jll"), or by creating a new package that uses it as a dependency.

This method has some caveats though:

• The Raylib_jll package is still at raylib 4.0. Though that should be easily solvable by updating the build script on Julia's Yggdrasil monorepo.
• When using the wrapper with Raylib_jll, for some reason the window isn't terminated properly after exiting. This proves to be fixable simply by using CloseWindow() later. This can be made automatically by using atexit() in a module, demonstrated on GLFW.jl
• The previous fix can only be achieved by including the entire wrapper on a new module, as it was done on GLFW.jl. This will require a complete new library overhaul which is an entire different issue/PR.

I've forked the repo and included some changes on a separate branch. If you accept the suggestion, we can update Raylib_jll to 4.2.0 and then create a PR to use it here, then slowly transition the entire wrapper to a module.