Porting a game engine

MatrixCubed · 2005-12-12T21:15:05

Hi all, Currently, I am attempting to port my game engine to Linux. I'm going to post some thoughts here, and potentially some questions, as I have been working on this game engine for roughly 10 months, and am porting it in the early stages of its development to ensure that I don't have a larger mountain to climb down the road. :) Thus far I've been following cross-platform coding practises, and selecting libraries which have cross-platform compatibility. I've been testing a few different IDEs (Anjuta, KDevelop3, Code::Blocks), and I have been facing some serious adversity. My main problem is library support; I'm using MySQL-client, SDL, SDL_Image, libpng, zlib, Raknet, STL, and potentially a few other libraries I can't think of at the moment. The IDEs above have been less than newbie-friendly! It seems the best thing I can do at this point in time, is stick with an IDE which has a good interface, (e.g. Kate for example) but compile the code using a custom makefile. Problem here is, it seems a daunting task to find the different linker options necessary for the libraries I'm using. It also seems like a real pain to have to edit the makefile anytime a new class or library is added to the project; it just seems like there must be a better way! Can anyone suggest some pointers or online references they found particularly helpful, related to this topic? Best regards,

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Started by MatrixCubed December 05, 2005 08:03 AM

9 comments, last by Ravuya 18 years, 9 months ago

Ravuya

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December 12, 2005 09:15 PM

Quote: Original post by MatrixCubed
Well, I got it working! :) Seems that DevC++ produces a decent makefile which only required minor editing to make it Linux compatible. :)

Ooh. What's all this about then?

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