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alec101 / OSInteraction

Multi-monitors / HID handling / everything you need for an OpenGL application or game under Windows/Mac/Linux
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Project Files #3

Closed ghost closed 9 years ago

ghost commented 9 years ago

Initial discussion on #1

I think automated tools like cmake are overkill right now. But we could offer a makefile and a visual studio project, i can take care of the makefile if that's ok. I am willing to bet that most if not everyone o can run a Makefile, even in windows with Cygwin or MingW64.

Dependencies and the like are a responsibility of the user who wants to compile from source, but we can offer a wiki entry about that.

alec101 commented 9 years ago

I've gone a little in-depth about ide's on the other isue. There is already a kind of system in place. I should upload somehow, maybe use one of these git forks or whatever (im new to git too).

Direct input/XInput libs, etc, I think Microsoft doesn't like to make them available from other sources. The user must download from the Microsoft site, or else, we might get sued and sent to Guantanamo or something.

ghost commented 9 years ago

Thanks for the detailed write-up here and in the other issue(#2) as well.

CMake is a very common piece of software that creates build files for all IDE'S/Compilers for all platforms, a basic cmake is pretty easy to define but i think its a lot of overkill for now, it can download dependencies from pre-set links or github/svn/mercurial repos and set it all up for all platforms. Maybe its my lack of experience with it, but the project files it creates are really only userfull for the end user of the lib, since is basicly just a compile project (At least in visual studio).

Makefiles can be used by every single IDE option you linked, even Visual Studio (This one is not recommended), you just have to select "External Build System". I can vouch for this one, since i did this with at least Netbeans and cblocks.

There's is no secret to makefiles and i can maintain them. I'am sure you will be able to change/understand them as well after a couple of looks at some commits.

So basicly, just a single Makefile and a Visual Studio Solution would do the trick.

alec101 commented 9 years ago

Uploaded visual studio project , netbeans project.

XCode and CodeBlocks proj files are not done ATM. They need updates.

ghost commented 9 years ago

Sounds good, i think the proj preffix you suggested in #2 is a good ideia. I will commit a general Makefile later today.

Think we can close this?

alec101 commented 9 years ago

ye