Godot Evdev

Godot Evdev is a native GDExtension for Godot 4.x that exposes libevdev functionality to GDSCript. It allows you to directly access and process input events from /dev/input/event* devices and create virtual devices using uinput.

Requirements

Build Requirements

The following are required to build Open Gamepad UI:

• Godot 4.x
• GCC 7+ or Clang 6+.
• Python 3.5+.
• SCons 3.0+ build system
• pkg-config (used to detect the dependencies below).
• X11, Xcursor, Xinerama, Xi and XRandR development libraries.
• MesaGL development libraries.
• ALSA development libraries.
• PulseAudio development libraries.
• Evdev development libraries
• make (optional)
• unzip (optional)
• wget (optional)

If you are using ArchLinux, you can run the following:

pacman -S --needed scons pkgconf gcc libxcursor libxinerama libxi libxrandr mesa glu libglvnd alsa-lib pulseaudio libevdev make unzip wget git

Building

You can build the project using the following:

make build

Usage

Copy the addons folder after you have built the project into your Godot project directory.