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The GDExtension system

GDExtension is a Godot-specific technology that lets the engine interact with native shared libraries at runtime. You can use it to run native code without compiling it with the engine.

Note

GDExtension is not a scripting language and has no relation to GDScript.

This section describes how GDExtension works, and is generally aimed at people wanting to make a GDExtension from scratch, for example to create language bindings. If you want to use existing language bindings, please refer to other articles instead, such as the articles about C++ (godot-cpp) or one of the community-made ones.

• What is GDExtension?
• The .gdextension file
• GDExtension C example