SFML

01_README.md

SFML

Download

1. Go to SFML GitHub page https://github.com/SFML/SFML
2. Change the branch to the version you want to build, or keep in master to build most recent
3. Download the zip file for that branch
4. Extract any where, I like ~/SFML-versionX

Compile and Install

5. Open cmake-gui (install with apt install cmake-qt-gui, run with cmake-gui)
6. Field "Where is the source code": ~/SFML-versionX
7. Field "WHere to build the binaries": ~/SFML-versionX/build (create if it doesn't exist)
8. Click Configure
9. If this is the first time, select generator Unix Makefiles
10. Options will be red
11. Change values, like CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE from Release to Debug, and others
12. Pay attention to CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX
13. Click Configure again, options will be normal
14. Click Generate
15. In terminal, cd ~/SFML-versionX/build
16. make clean
17. make
18. sudo make install

Build and Run a project

19. When executing g++ Linker, make sure to use the CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX/lib to do the linking, example:

• If CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX = /usr/local, use -L/usr/local/lib when linking
• g++ main.o -o final_program -L/usr/local/lib -lsfml-graphics
• When running, make sure it is in LD_LIBRARY_PATH
• export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/lib