erincatto / box2d-lite-manifest

Box2D-Lite

Box2D-Lite is a small 2D physics engine. It was developed for the 2006 GDC Physics Tutorial. This is the original version of the larger Box2D library. The Lite version is more suitable for learning about game physics.

Building

• Install CMake
• Ensure CMake is in the user PATH
• Visual Studio 2017: run build.bat
• Otherwise: run build.sh from a bash shell
• Results are in the build sub-folder

Building in VS2022 with vcpkg

• install vcpkg: https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg
• define environment variable: VCPKG_ROOT as your local vcpkg-dir
• define environment variable: VCPKG_DEFAULT_TRIPLET as x64-windows
• close all instances of VS 2022
• open this folder with VS 2022 (wait for CMake to finish)
• in the toolbar set the startup item to samples.exe
• you can now press F5 to run and debug

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