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nem0 / LumixEngine

3D C++ Game Engine - yet another open source game engine

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Setting up new project #1116

Closed VinnyVicious closed 7 years ago

VinnyVicious commented 7 years ago

Do i build Lumix with my own project, or do i link dynamically?
Is it possible to build a Lumix project with CMake?

nem0 commented 7 years ago

See https://github.com/nem0/LumixEngine/wiki/Getting-started how to build Lumix on Linux this travis script https://github.com/nem0/LumixEngine/blob/master/.travis.yml might be of some use

There is no CMake, Lumix uses genie as a project generator

VinnyVicious commented 7 years ago

I did read that. And i already built everything. But that's explaining how to build the engine, not a project using the engine. That's my question: Do i build Lumix with my own project, or do i link dynamically? Do i have to build the engine along with my projects?

nem0 commented 7 years ago

@VinnyVicious aha, now I understand.

Lumix is not really intended to be used as a library. It's more like Unity.

I used this https://github.com/nem0/LumixEngine/wiki/Implementing-3rd-party-plugins for my game - where plugin == my game

It is possible to have your own int main(), something like https://github.com/nem0/LumixEngine/blob/master/src/app/main_win.cpp, however there is not single click way to do that. I can add support for that if you are interested.

VinnyVicious commented 7 years ago

Oh, so the engine also publishes packages of my game? It does cross-platform compilation?

nem0 commented 7 years ago

Lumix does not do any cross-compilation. It has to be done manually at the moment. Game package can be created in the studio. Engine is not fully ported to Linux as you can see here https://github.com/nem0/LumixEngine/issues/655