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Introduction to CMake

Finally I can write about using CMake. I’m going to go through the basics of writing a CMakeLists.txt file, which controls how CMake runs, and using CMake to build software. Since my focus is on CMake itself, I’ll use a very simple program for testing that simply prints out the version of SDL that you [...]

Setting Up a Cross-platform Game Development Environment

Setting Up a Cross-platform Game Development Environment If we are going to make a cross platform game engine, then we need to have the right environment to do so. We need editors, compilers, and build management software at a minimum, and we ought to have source code revision control software as well. We need tools [...]