Libretro is an API that exposes generic audio/video/input callbacks.Ī frontend for libretro (such as RetroArch) handles video output, audio output, input and application lifecycle.Ī libretro core written in portable C or C++ can run seamlessly on many platforms with very little to no porting effort.
These programs are instantiated as dynamic libraries. Popular examples of implementations for this API includes video game system emulators and game engines as well as RetroArch is the reference frontend for the libretro API.
