http://mattdietz.net/enMon, 24 Aug 2015 03:19:50 GMThttp://getnikola.com/http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rsshttp://mattdietz.net/posts/installing-sfml-from-source.htmlMatt Dietz<div><p>It's fairly easy to install SFML from source on OSX. Following the instructions in <a href="http://www.sfml-dev.org/tutorials/2.3/compile-with-cmake.php">Compiling SFML with CMake</a> you'll need CMake. The problem is CMake isn't included with OSX default. Fortunately, <a href="http://brew.sh/">Homebrew</a> remedies that for us. Simply follow the instructions on the Homebrew site to get started.</p> <p>Once that finishes installing, follow the current brew instructions for updating your formula list. Then, simply install CMake:</p> <pre class="code literal-block"> brew install cmake </pre> <p>Notice I omitted sudo. That's because homebrew installs everything under /usr/local/, and you're going to have a bad time if random bits and pieces under that hierarchy are owned by root.</p> <p>Next, snag SFML from source, cd into the cloned directory, and then kick off CMake</p> <pre class="code literal-block"> git clone https://github.com/SFML/SFML.git cd SFML cmake CMakeLists.txt </pre> <p>Once CMake finishes running (it'll take a couple seconds) you'll have our old friend Makefile generated in the local directory. You probably know what to do at this point</p> <pre class="code literal-block"> make sudo make install </pre> <p>At this point, you should have some fancy new headers and libraries under /usr/local. Congrats!</p> <p>P.S. I'm a masochist and like to build SFML games from the command line, so I found out the hard way that /usr/local/include and /usr/local/lib aren't in your default search path. To tell clang you want it to look somewhere else, give it the -I (include path) and -L (library path) flags.</p> <pre class="code literal-block"> CFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib -I/usr/local/include ... </pre></div>gamedevprogrammingSFMLtutorialshttp://mattdietz.net/posts/installing-sfml-from-source.htmlSun, 23 Aug 2015 05:57:05 GMThttp://mattdietz.net/posts/compiling-sfml-for-broader-osx-compatibility.htmlMatt Dietz<div><p>I recently competed in Ludum Dare 27, and one of the biggest struggles I had was making an application I built on the command line on my machine actually run for others. The first sign that I should have considered alternative frameworks was when I could only get SFML to link properly into my game when I built it from bleeding edge source. However, I'd been trucking along just fine using the compiled dylibs. I had been assuming the entire time that it was sufficient to include code and instructions for building the project yourself, but when the barrier to entry is too high, people will simply prefer all the Unity and HTML5 Canvas games. It's hard to blame them, really.</p> <p>So, I set out to figure out how to package up SFML with my binary and ship it. After stumbling through a bunch of mediocre attempts to include the SFML dylibs in the zip file I submitted ot the competition, I finally realized the only thing left to do was construct a Mac app bundle.</p> <p>Enter XCode.</p> <p><a href="http://mattdietz.net/posts/compiling-sfml-for-broader-osx-compatibility.html">Read more…</a> (2 min remaining to read)</p></div>C++game programminggamesOSXSFMLhttp://mattdietz.net/posts/compiling-sfml-for-broader-osx-compatibility.htmlMon, 26 Aug 2013 21:04:39 GMT