diff --git a/Working-with-CMake.md b/Working-with-CMake.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2567058 --- /dev/null +++ b/Working-with-CMake.md @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +Besides the `games/` and `examples/` that are built along raylib by default, there's also a sample CMake project at `projects/CMake`: + +``` +cd projects/CMake # You can also just download the CMakeLists.txt and the core_basic_window.c file separately +mkdir build # Create an out-of-tree build directory. That way build artifacts aren't mixed with source code +cd build # enter it +cmake .. # run cmake on the parent directory +cmake --build . # kick of the build process +``` + +The `CMakeLists.txt` is self contained and will arrange to probe whether raylib has been installed and if not, it's downloaded, built and linked statically into the `core_basic_window` example application. + +## Use from within an IDE + +CMake supports a range of generators, which can be used to generate project files for IDEs/Build-Tools such as Visual Studio, Ninja or Sublime Text 2. e.g. for Xcode you can run `cmake -G 'Xcode' ..` to have it generate project files for import into Xcode. \ No newline at end of file