SDL2 Game Template

Introduction

This repository contains the template for a SDL2 project which does the following things:

• Implements Game loop for 60 fps
• Creates window
• Sets window icon and title
• Creates and Renders background texture
• Creates and Renders sprite
• Handles keypress events

Requirements

• MinGW toolkit (g++) (required)
• Python (>=3.8.x) (optional)

Libraries Required

• SDL2
• SDL_image

How to compile?

1. Install and Extract

   • SDL2 development libraries from https://libsdl.org/download-2.0.php
   • Compiler specific development libraries of SDL_image from https://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_image/

2. Copy

   • SDL2/bin/* to bin/debug/ and bin/release/
   • SDL2/include/* to include/
   • SDL2/lib/* to lib/
   • SDL_image/bin/* to bin/debug/ and bin/release/
   • SDL_image/include/* to include/
   • SDL_image/lib/* to lib/

3.  make res
   
    make run # to build and run debug executable
    # or
    make release # to build release executable

4. (Optional) You can make changes to generate_sprite.py files to make changes to sprite

   python generate_sprite.py
   
   make res

5. Feel free to open an issue in this repo if you get any error