pulsar

my eecs 498 game engine

[wip] a fast, cross-platform distributable 2D game engine. with c++20, perf engineering, box2d, sdl, lua middleware and modular ECS.

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Quick Start

Having all requirements set, here you can find how to quickly build and run the application.

Table of contents

• pulsar
  • Quick Start
    • Table of contents
    • Build
    • Execute
      • macOS
      • Windows
      • Linux
    • Distribution
    • Tests
    • Preview
  • credits

Build

Usually available build modes are Debug, Release, and RelWithDebInfo.

To run a debug build:

cmake -GNinja -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -B build/debug
cmake --build build/debug

To run a release build:

cmake -GNinja -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -B build/release
cmake --build build/release

On macOS Xcode should be used as generator via -GXcode. For example creating a release build with XCode.

# Using Xcode
cmake -GXcode -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -B build/xcode
cmake --build build/xcode

Execute

When not running through an IDE like CLion, the built application can be run by directly executing the generated binary.

macOS

To run a debug build:

./build/debug/src/app/App.app/Contents/MacOS/App

To run a release build:

./build/release/src/app/App.app/Contents/MacOS/App

To run a debug build created with Xcode:

./build/xcode/src/app/Debug/App.app/Contents/MacOS/App

To run a release build created with Xcode:

./build/xcode/src/app/Release/App.app/Contents/MacOS/App

Windows

To run a debug build:

build/debug/src/app/App.exe

To run a release build:

build/release/src/app/App.exe

Linux

To run a debug build:

./build/debug/src/app/App

To run a release build:

./build/release/src/app/App

Distribution

To bundle the application and create a distribution package CPack is used. Before executing CPack a release build needs to be generated.

cpack --config build/release/CPackConfig.cmake

Tests

On any generated build tests can be executed by using CTest, e.g. a Debug build:

ctest --test-dir build/debug

Preview

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credits

Martin Fieber's C++20 project template with SDL2 and imgui. Lot of project installation, setup, distribution docs come from there.

Also, open source font Manrope.