winui-tic-tac-toe

Python WinUI Tic-Tac-Toe

A polished Mica/Fluent 3x3 Tic-Tac-Toe window built from generated WinUI projections. It demonstrates unpackaged WinAppSDK startup, XAML loading, events, window resizing, a named Python TicTacToePanel XAML registration, a native measure_override, and deterministic registration cleanup.

Prerequisites

• Windows 11 on x64 with Python and Rust/Cargo available.
• An unpackaged x64 WinAppSDK 2.3 fixture: Microsoft.UI.Xaml.winmd, a newline-separated reference-WinMD list, and the matching x64 Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.Bootstrap.dll. The matching x64 WinAppSDK framework/runtime packages and resources must also be installed or available to the unpackaged runtime.
• dynwinrt installed in the Python interpreter used to run the sample.
• A compatible dynwinrt-codegen executable, either on PATH or passed with -Codegen.

No published package is assumed. From the repository root, build the codegen executable and install the runtime into the active Python environment:

cargo build -p dynwinrt-codegen --release
Push-Location bindings\py
python -m pip install maturin
python -m maturin develop --release
Pop-Location

From this sample directory, generate the local package and copy the bootstrap DLL (replace the fixture paths):

.\generate.ps1 `
  -WinuiWinmd C:\fixtures\winappsdk\metadata\Microsoft.UI.Xaml.winmd `
  -RefList C:\fixtures\winappsdk\winmd-reference-list.txt `
  -BootstrapDll C:\fixtures\winappsdk\x64\Microsoft.WindowsAppRuntime.Bootstrap.dll `
  -Codegen ..\..\..\target\release\dynwinrt-codegen.exe

If the CLI is installed on PATH, omit -Codegen. Run with the same Python environment that contains dynwinrt:

.\run.ps1 -Python C:\path\to\python.exe

generated\, .runtime\, and Python caches are local build artifacts and are not tracked.