sanidhyaanand / Light

Lightweight Renderer, purposed to augment the development of Physicc

Light

Lightweight Renderer, purposed to augment the development of Physicc

Platforms

Platforms currently it compiles on:

• Windows 10
• Ubuntu 18

Prerequisites

• cmake

Windows

• MinGW / VS 2019

Ubuntu

• gcc
• X11

If you get library headers not found error while building, apt-get the dev version of all packages it requests you to install

sudo apt install libxrandr-dev libxinerama-dev libxcursor-dev libxi-dev

Mac

• XCode
• Cocoa
• IOKit
• CoreVideo

Build Instructions

Recursive clone the git module

git clone --recursive https://github.com/dropTableUsers42/Light

VSCode

If you have the CMake tools extension, then simply select location as Editor folder, select kit as GCC/VS 2019, and build target as Editor

Hit Build

On Terminal

• Change into directory

  cd Light

• Execute the following command

  cmake --no-warn-unused-cli -HEditor -Bbuild -G"[Generator]"

  Replace [Generator] with the compiler name you want to compile with, MinGW Makefiles/Unix Makefiles/Visual Studio 16 2019. The corresponding makefile/solution file is generated into Light/build

• If you want to build on terminal, execute

  cmake --build build

• If you want to build using Visual Studio 2019, just open the solution file generated

If you do not have a dedicated GPU (or drivers for the dedicated GPU eg. on Linux), you may need to run the following command on the terminal to setup the environment variables before running our program

export MESA_GL_VERSION_OVERRIDE=3.3