minigame
This is a basic sample game made with Rust that runs on both desktop and mobile platforms. Right now it's been tested on macOS, iOS and Android and it works as long as you do some steps by hand. The idea is to have the whole show running on its own without the need of any manual step.
Hot code reloading
This is a feature that is only available on desktop but it's very handy when working with gameplay code.
Edit src/test_shared.rs and run cargo build to see hot reloading in action.
Run cargo run to run with the dynamic library
Run cargo run --no-default-features to run the application with all of the code statically linked and with hotloading disabled.
Installing needed targets for mobile:
# iOS. Note: you need *all* five targets
rustup target add aarch64-apple-ios armv7-apple-ios armv7s-apple-ios x86_64-apple-ios i386-apple-ios
# Android.
rustup target add aarch64-linux-android armv7-linux-androideabi i686-linux-android x86_64-linux-android
Building without hot reloading
cargo build --no-default-features --lib
Building the Rust library for the iOS simulator
To build for iOS simulator:
cargo build --no-default-features --target x86_64-apple-ios --lib
To get iOS running:
- Clone the SDL repo
- Open the Xcode-iOS project and build the library for both the simulator and the device
- Copy the resulting libraries in your target/[platform] folders
- Clone the sdl2-image repo from http://hg.libsdl.org/SDL_image/
- Open the Xcode-iOS project and build the library for both the simulator and the device
- Copy the resulting libraries in your target/[platform] folders
- Open the ios/minigame Xcode project and run it
Building the Android standalone toolchain
/Users/tanis/Documents/android-sdk/ndk-bundle/build/tools/make_standalone_toolchain.py --arch arm --install-dir /Users/tanis/Documents/android-ndk-arm
/Users/tanis/Documents/android-sdk/ndk-bundle/build/tools/make_standalone_toolchain.py --arch arm64 --install-dir /Users/tanis/Documents/android-ndk-arm64
/Users/tanis/Documents/android-sdk/ndk-bundle/build/tools/make_standalone_toolchain.py --arch x86 --install-dir /Users/tanis/Documents/android-ndk-x86
/Users/tanis/Documents/android-sdk/ndk-bundle/build/tools/make_standalone_toolchain.py --arch x86_64 --install-dir /Users/tanis/Documents/android-ndk-x86_64
Configuration for Android linking
For the time being you have to use a standalone toolchain. I'm pretty sure this can be solved with some clever
code in build.rs by setting the correct sysroot, but that's something left for later.
Edit .cargo/config and add the following:
[target.armv7-linux-androideabi]
linker = "/Users/tanis/Documents/android-ndk-arm/bin/arm-linux-androideabi-gcc"
[target.aarch64-linux-android]
linker = "/Users/tanis/Documents/android-ndk-arm64/bin/aarch64-linux-android-gcc"
[target.i686-linux-android]
linker = "/Users/tanis/Documents/android-ndk-x86/bin/i686-linux-android-gcc"
[target.x86_64-linux-android]
linker = "/Users/tanis/Documents/android-ndk-x86_64/bin/x86_64-linux-android-gcc"
Building the SDL2 library for Android
cd android/Minigame/sdl
../gradlew assemble
Building the Rust library for Android
The following used to work until I introduced dependent cargo libraries that wrap C/C++ code. It looks like .cargo/config parameters aren't being passed down the line, so we need a workaround.
cargo build --no-default-features --target armv7-linux-androideabi --lib
cargo build --no-default-features --target i686-linux-android --lib
cargo build --no-default-features --target x86_64-linux-android --lib
The workaround is to use the following and pass the reference to C, CXX and AR by hand (ugly!):
CC=/Users/tanis/Documents/android-ndk-arm/bin/arm-linux-androideabi-gcc CXX=/Users/tanis/Documents/android-ndk-arm/bin/arm-linux-androideabi-g++ AR=/Users/tanis/Documents/android-ndk-arm/bin/arm-linux-androideabi-ar cargo build --no-default-features --target armv7-linux-androideabi --lib
CC=/Users/tanis/Documents/android-ndk-x86/bin/i686-linux-android-gcc CXX=/Users/tanis/Documents/android-ndk-x86/bin/i686-linux-android-g++ AR=/Users/tanis/Documents/android-ndk-x86/bin/i686-linux-android-ar cargo build --no-default-features --target i686-linux-android --lib
CC=/Users/tanis/Documents/android-ndk-x86_64/bin/x86_64-linux-android-gcc CXX=/Users/tanis/Documents/android-ndk-x86_64/bin/x86_64-linux-android-g++ AR=/Users/tanis/Documents/android-ndk-x86_64/bin/x86_64-linux-android-ar cargo build --no-default-features --target x86_64-linux-android --lib
Copying the Rust library to the Android project
cp target/armv7-linux-androideabi/debug/libminigame.so android/Minigame/app/src/main/jniLibs/armeabi/
cp target/armv7-linux-androideabi/debug/libminigame.so android/Minigame/app/src/main/jniLibs/armeabi-v7a/
cp target/i686-linux-android/debug/libminigame.so android/Minigame/app/src/main/jniLibs/x86/
cp target/x86_64-linux-android/debug/libminigame.so android/Minigame/app/src/main/jniLibs/x86_64/
Buiding the actual Android application
cd android/Minigame/app
../gradlew assemble