Basic Rendering with Modern OpenGL
This project needs five external libraries, glfw, glm, glew, tinyobjloader, lodepng. tinyobjloader and lodepng have been put into /ext directory. The remaining three need to be downloaded and built manually, since they are updated frequently. For following instruction, you will need cmake and git. Please install them before continuing.
Simply go to their offical website and download the latest version.
- glew (Uncompress and put in /ext) http://glew.sourceforge.net/
- glm (Uncompress and put in /ext) https://github.com/g-truc/glm/tags
- glfw (Enter the following command in /ext)
(Linux Only!!!)Install Package for GLFW
git clone https://github.com/glfw/glfw
sudo apt-get install xorg-dev
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At root directory of this repo. Make a new folder which has name start with "build". For example build_mingw or build_msvc
# Don't copy me please... mkdir build_mingw -
Open cmake-gui and follow the steps in the figure.
This dialog wants you to choose an IDE(Compiler/Build Tool). You may want to choose "Unix Makefiles" in Linux-like or MacOSX. I normally use mingw-gcc and Visual Studio, so my selections are "MinGW Makefiles" and "Visual Studio 14 2015 Win64"
After you press generate button, there will be a project file/makefile in the build folder. You can use IDE to open it(*.sln file) or use "make" to build. The following is the universal build command for different makefiles generators. This command can also be used to build Visual Studio project
cmake --build .- If you want to add additional cpp files, simply re-cmake in build folder. It will adject Makefiles/Projectfiles autometically.
- Well support for all platforms (Mac OS X, Linux, Windows) and IDEs/Compilers (xcode, codeblocks, visual studio).
- Please don't copy and paste the commands I list here. Try to understand it.