OdinRigView

A minimal, native Windows desktop utility for reading and sharing PC hardware specs — written in the Odin programming language.

Built as a clean reimplementation of PC-Info by Adeptstack Studios, stripped of framework overhead and rewritten from scratch with a data-oriented, explicitly-typed approach. No .NET runtime. No installer. Just a single .exe.

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What It Does

Non-technical users who are selling their computer need one thing: a fast, readable summary of their PC specs they can copy and paste into a marketplace listing. OdinRigView gives them exactly that.

• Displays OS, CPU, RAM, GPU, motherboard, and storage drives in a clean, easy-to-read layout
• Shows motherboard version and available RAM slot count for upgrade clarity
• Shows a live RAM usage bar that refreshes every second
• One-click copy formats all specs as plain text, ready to paste anywhere
• Dark and light mode with a strict 5-color palette
• Three font sizes (Small / Medium / Large) — always crisp, no blur

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Screenshots

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Features

Feature	Detail
OS Info	Username, PC name, Windows edition, architecture
CPU Info	Full name, core count, thread count, base clock (GHz)
RAM Info	Total, usable, hardware-reserved, live available vs. in-use
GPU Info	Full GPU name, dedicated VRAM (GB) via DXGI
Motherboard Info	Manufacturer, product, version, TPM version, RAM slots used and free
Drive Info	Per-drive: letter, label, format, type (SSD / NVMe / HDD), total and free space
Copy to Clipboard	Clean plain-text summary of all specs, marketplace-ready
Font Size Picker	Small / Medium / Large selector in Help & Info — no blur at any size
Theme Toggle	Dark mode (default) and Light mode
Side Menu	Hamburger drawer with three views: System Info, Drives, Help & Info

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Tech Stack

Purpose	Library
Window + rendering	vendor:raylib
GPU info (DXGI)	vendor:directx
Cross-platform hardware info	core:sys/info
Windows API (RAM, drives, clipboard)	core:sys/windows
Text formatting	core:fmt
Frame timing	core:time

No external dependencies beyond what ships with the Odin compiler. Raylib is statically linked — the output is a self-contained .exe.

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Project Structure

pc_info/
├── main.odin           # Entry point, window init, main loop, App_State
├── types.odin          # All shared structs — System_Data, CPU_Info, RAM_Info, etc.
├── sysinfo.odin        # Platform-neutral hardware collection via core:sys/info
├── sys_windows.odin    # All Win32 / DXGI calls — isolated here only
├── font.odin           # Font_Atlas struct, font_load_all / font_unload_all, size helpers
├── ui.odin             # UI layout and per-view rendering
├── ui_theme.odin       # Color palette constants, Theme and Font_Size enums
└── clipboard.odin      # Copy-to-clipboard and screenshot logic

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Building

Requirements

• Odin compiler — version dev-2026-03-nightly:6d9a611 (used for Latest Release)
• Windows 10 or Windows 11 (x86_64)
• Odin's vendor:raylib bindings (included with the compiler)

Compile

Run this from the project root (the directory containing the pc_info folder):

odin build pc_info -out:pc_info.exe -define:RAYLIB_SHARED=false -extra-linker-flags:"/FORCE:MULTIPLE"

Flag	Reason
-out:pc_info.exe	Names the output binary.
-define:RAYLIB_SHARED=false	Statically links Raylib — no separate DLL required.
-extra-linker-flags:"/FORCE:MULTIPLE"	Suppresses duplicate symbol errors that can arise when Raylib and microui share some definitions.

The result is a single pc_info.exe with no runtime dependencies. Copy it anywhere and run it.

Note for source builders: font_load_all uploads textures to the GPU and must be called after rl.InitWindow. Calling it at package scope or before the window exists will crash.

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Design

The UI uses a strict 5-color palette:

Name	Hex	Role
Onyx	#000f08	Dark background
Jet Black	#1c3738	Menu / card backgrounds
Charcoal	#4d4847	Muted text, borders
Mint Cream	#f4fff8	Light background, primary text in dark mode
Cool Steel	#8baaad	Accent color, buttons, RAM bar

Full design specification is in design.md.

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Inspired By

• PC-Info — Adeptstack Studios — the original C# / WPF application this project reimplements.

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License

MIT

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Tags

v1.1.0  odin  odin-lang  windows  raylib  system-info  desktop-app  pc-specs  hardware-info  minimal  data-oriented