base_engine

This is a repository where I will work upon making a base engine for SFML that I will use to make games.

How to setup in Visual Studio 2022

To setup this repository as your template first clone this repository in your local environment. Now click on the base_engine.sln file and produce a template in VS 2022 from Project -> Export Template. Now make your project with the template. In properties of the solution we setup the dependencies of our project.

1. Set the configuration as All Configurations and the platform as x64 as the libraries are 64-bit versions. You can also use the 32-bit versions (download the lib and include folder from the SFML put them in the Dependencies directory instead of the given) and use the x86 platform.
2. In the VC++ Directories in the Include Directories section add the directory $(SolutionDir)Dependencies\include and in the Library Directories section $(SolutionDir)Dependencies\lib and click apply. (Note you can do the same in C/C++ -> Additional Include Directories and C/C++ -> Additional Library Directories instead of this.)
3. Now in C/C++ (Note that this section won't be visible if you haven't included atleast one cpp file.) under Preprocessor add the preprocessor SFML_STATIC.
4. In C/C++ -> Linker now first set the configuration to Debug and from the SFML_lib_config.txt text file copy the section under Debug and paste it in Linker -> Input -> Additional Dependencies. (Note that these are the files with *-s-d.lib in suffix.) Click Apply.
5. Change configuration to Releease and in Linker -> Input -> Additional Dependencies from the text file paste the section under Release. Click Apply.

And Thats it. Now you can check by pressing 'F5', a window will come up along with the Local Windows Debugger.