ECS & SFML Template

This code was created during a university project to provide a solid game development basis. It provides an ECS which may be used via the coordinator class engine. Please refer to the docs which can be generated via running doxygen Doxyfile which requires doxygen to be installed. Also see the main.cc file for example usage.

Base requirements

• clang, gcc or msvc
• cmake
• conan2 (requires python3 and pip3)

Initial setup

If you haven't installed conan package manager before:

pip install conan

then configure conan using:

conan profile detect --force

read the output it may hint at missing requirements like a compiler. If there is something missing install it and repeat this step.

Install all dependencies and create cmake files for the Debug target:

conan install . --build=missing -c tools.system.package_manager:sudo=True -c tools.system.package_manager:mode=install -s build_type=Debug

Now we may build the Debug target:

conan build . -s build_type=Debug

The executable should now be located in one of those locations:

Macos, Linux:

build/Debug/manhattan_bin

Windows:

.\build\Debug\manhattan_bin.exe

If you want to build the Release target replace Debug with Release in both conan commands and re-run them. Afterwards navigate to the Release folder and run the application.

Note: To run tests just run ecs_test. For example on Macos, Linux:

build/Debug/manhattan_test