game_sf

Wrapper / helpers for making a game with SFML using crsfml

Installation

1. Install SFML

2. Add the dependency to your shard.yml:

   dependencies:
     game_sf:
       github: mswieboda/game_sf
   

3. Run shards install

If on a Mac or Linux you should be good and the make should work from crsfml's shards postinstall. (I don't test on Linux right now, but it should be easier than Windows if it doesn't work.)

Note: if installing on Windows use shards install --skip-postinstall instead of shards install as the make from crsfml fails with Windows on a regular shell. To setup crsfml for Windows, checkout the crsfml repo, and git checkout v2.5.3 to make sure it's on the right SFML version. Make sure you have open a x64 Native Tools Command Prompt for VS 2019 shell (see video with instructions for VS 2019 you only need the VS 2019 portion, can ignore all other crystal/crsfml things it's an old video). Once you've opened a shell on Windows via x64 Native Tools Command Prompt for VS 2019, navigate to your v2.5.3 checked out crsfml directory, and inside there run make, this will generate all the .obj files like crsfml/audio/ext.obj that are required. Now, in your game directory, delete all the files/folders in lib/crsfml and copy over all the files/folders (except for .git/) from your crsfml folder. Then crsfml should work on Windows, after you follow correct instructions from Install SFML and have all the environment variables set %PATH%, %INCLUDE%, %LIB% to the SFML locations. You should only need to do this once per project. Ideally I'll make a script to do all this so it's easier for windows.

Usage

require "game_sf"

Contributing

1. Fork it (https://github.com/mswieboda/game_sf/fork)
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request

New Release

To make a new release after PRs or features merged, make sure you bump the version and push the tag. Currently this is done on master but might be automated with GitHub Actions/CI or done manually in PRs down the line.

script helper to bump version, commit, and tag:

./bump.cr patch|minor|major|specific-version

then

git push

and

git push --tags

Contributors

• Matt Swieboda - creator and maintainer