Jester565 / FarmerGame

An implementation of the AllegroExt and Lighting4 library in a platformer.

FarmerGame

FarmerGame is a small project written in three days and was built to show the versatility of AllegroExt and Lighting4. It features a short campaign against evil potatos (don't ask) and was an implementation of a team project outline.

Building

Clone repository with --recurse-submodules flag
Requirements: Boost (1.68.0), Allegro (5.2.4), and Box2D (2.3.1)

Requirement Installation

1. Installing Boost
   1. Download at https://www.boost.org/
   2. In boost root directory, run ./bootstrap
   3. For default configuration compatibility run: ./b2 --stagedir=./stage/VS2017/x64 address-model=64 --toolset=msvc-14.1 --with-thread variant=release link=static threading=multi runtime-link=static
   4. Add the boost root directory to CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH and the directory of your boost library files (should be in stage/lib) to CMAKE_LIBRARY_PATH.
2. Installing Box2D
   1. Download from https://github.com/erincatto/Box2D
   2. Install Premake5
   3. Run premake5 vs2017 --StaticRuntime
   4. Run visual studio solution or make
3. Installing Allegro
   • Windows:
     1. After you generate the FarmerGame solution, goto Tools -> NuGet Packet Manager -> Manage NuGet Packages for Solution... -> Browse
     2. Search for and install Allegro for AllegroExt, Lighting4, and FarmerGame
     3. Goto the properties for the Allegro projects and set the dependencies like this
   • Ubuntu:
     1. Install Allegro5 Package with this guide

Build

mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -G "Visual Studio 15 2017" -A x64 -T host=x64 -Dboxlibdir="(Box2D Directory)\Build\bin\x86_64\Release\" -Dboxincludedir="(Box2D Directory)"        #For Ubuntu don't include -G option

Run make or build the solution
Set FarmerGame as Startup Project after building on Visual Studio

Troubleshooting

• If using Visual Studio, make sure all projects are using /MT runtime linking and Basic Runtime Checks is set to default.