Raylib-Quickstart

Work in process quickstart for raylib using premake

VSCode Users

Download the quickstart
Rename the folder to your game name
Open the folder in VSCode.
Press F5 to build
You are good to go.

Windows Users

There are two compiler toolchains avialble for windows, MinGW-W64 (a free compiler using GCC), and Microsoft Visual Studio

Using MinGW-W64

Double click the premake-mingw.bat file.
cd into the folder in your terminal
run make
you are good to go

Note on MinGW-64 versions

Make sure you have a modern version of MinGW-W64 (not mingw). The best place to get it is from the W64devkit from https://github.com/skeeto/w64devkit/releases or the version installed with the raylib installer, just make sure to add the C:\raylib\w64devkit\bin to your path if you used the raylib installer

Microsoft Visual Studio

Run the premake-VisualStudio.bat
double click the .sln file that is geneated.
develop your game
you are good to go.

Linux and MacOS Users

CD into the build folder
run ./premake5 gmake2
CD back to the root
run make
you are good to go

Output files

The built code will be in the bin dir

Building for other OpenGL targets

If you need to build for a different OpenGL version than the default (OpenGL 3.3) you can specify an openGL version in your premake command line. Just modify the bat file or add the following to your command line

For OpenGL 1.1

--graphics=opengl11

For OpenGL 2.1

--graphics=opengl21

For OpenGL 4.3

--graphics=opengl43

For OpenGLES 2.0

--graphics=opengles2

For OpenGLES 3.0

--graphics=opengles3

License

This software is provided "as-is", without any express or implied warranty. In no event will the authors be held liable for any damages arising from the use of this software.

Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any purpose, including commercial applications, and to alter it and redistribute it freely, subject to the following restrictions:

The origin of this software must not be misrepresented; you must not claim that you wrote the original software. If you use this software in a product, an acknowledgment in the product documentation would be appreciated but is not required.
Altered source versions must be plainly marked as such, and must not be misrepresented as being the original software.
This notice may not be removed or altered from any source distribution.

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