Joakker / tcod-go

A wrapper of the tcod library to the Go language

tcod-go

tcod-go is a wrapper of the libtcod library to the Go language.

Installation

• You must have the libtcod library already installed. This can be done by following the instructions in that repo.
• You must also have the SDL2 development files installed. You can get them from your package manager or directly from the website, but if you are compiling libtcod from source, you should already have them.
• Finally, you also need pkg-config to find the above packages.

Assuming you have the go executable in your PATH and you have set up the GOPATH environment variable, simply run:

go get -v "github.com/Joakker/tcod-go"

and go should do everything else for you.

Unlike the C library, this binding provides a default font image, so you don't need to provide your own.

Minimal Program

Copy this into your text editor of choice and go run it

package main

import (
    "log"

    "github.com/Joakker/tcod-go"
    "github.com/Joakker/tcod-go/tinput"
)

func main() {
    root, err := tcod.InitRoot(80, 50, "The adventures of Go", false, tcod.RenderSDL2)

    if err != nil {
        log.Fatal(err)
    }

    i := tinput.NewInput()

    for !tcod.WindowClosed() {
        i.Check()
        root.Clear()
            root.PrintFrame(0, 0, 80, 50, false, "The adventures of Go")
        tcod.Flush()
    }
}

You should get something more or less like this:

In the future there should be a complete tutorial in this repo's wiki.

Contributing

Pull requests are not only welcome but encouraged. I started working on this project very recently, so there is still a lot to be done, and even more I may be overlooking.

License

See here