Minimal cross-platform SFML 3.0 starter template using modern CMake.

README.md

SFML 3.0 Starter Project (Cross-Platform + CMake)

This is a minimalist C++ game dev boilerplate using SFML 3.0.1 + modern CMake .just plug, code, and run fr fr 💅✨

💠 How To Run It (aka “How to not build”)

• Copy the CMakeLists.txt to your project root
• Then run: cmake -B build -S .
• if you use ninja then: cmake -B build -S . -G Ninja
• Make sure you got a main.cpp inside a src/ folder or you can just copy peast the main.cpp from here

📁 Project Structure I Use (and you should too tbh)

• 📄 .gitignore
• 🔺 CMakeLists.txt
• 📄 README.md
• 📄 LICENSE
• 📁 assets/
• 📁 fonts/
• 📁 sounds/
• 📁 src/
• 📁 build/

CMakeLists.txt

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.28)
project(ProkectName LANGUAGES CXX VERSION 1.0)

set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD 17)
set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD_REQUIRED True)

include(FetchContent)
FetchContent_declare(
  SFML
  GIT_REPOSITORY https://github.com/SFML/SFML.git
  GIT_TAG 3.0.1
)
set(CMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS True)
set(SFML_BUILD_DOC          OFF CACHE BOOL "" FORCE)   
set(SFML_BUILD_TEST_SUITE   OFF CACHE BOOL "" FORCE)   
set(SFML_BUILD_EXAMPLES     OFF CACHE BOOL "" FORCE)   
FetchContent_MakeAvailable(SFML)

file(GLOB SRC "src/*.cpp")
add_executable(${PROJECT_NAME} ${SRC})

target_link_libraries(${PROJECT_NAME}
   PRIVATE
    SFML::Graphics
    SFML::Audio   
    SFML::Network 
)

main.cpp

#include <SFML/Graphics.hpp>

int main()
{
    sf::RenderWindow window(sf::VideoMode({800, 600}), "template");

    while (window.isOpen())
    {
        while (const std::optional event = window.pollEvent())
        {
            if (event->is<sf::Event::Closed>())
                window.close();
        }

        window.clear();
        window.display();
    }
}