This project is to create a game that can be played in the browser using C or C++ and using emscripten to compile it to play in the browswer
I don't know at the moment how to pass user input from the Javascript html page through to emscripten. My plan is to start by going through tests and looking for ones that prompt user interaction, then I will copy the code out from there and adjust it as input for a game.
So far I found this one named test_keyboard_codes.c which reads user input and shows emscripten API button information.
I am wondering if a smarter approach is to deal with the events in javascript and html and pass the needed information back to the C/C++ code, do the math, then pass that back to the JavaScript code b/c I think sending data other than ints and floats back and forth is fairly ineffecient. I haven't dived into how this test is handling input. Maybe this is a good approach to take.
For now, the public directory will hold the output of the compilations and an express JS server will serve the pages for local development.ß
Emscripten: https://emscripten.org/index.html
Initial compilation command: emcc src/test_keyboard_codes.c -o public/index.html
Compile command with SDL2: emcc src/combine_sdl_and_keyboard.cpp -o public/index.html -sUSE_SDL=2