A Game library for ISE Eiffel. This is a library for game developing with the Eiffel Language. The library is compatible with the IDE EiffelStudio 14.05 from ISE.
The library is compatible with Linux, MAC OS X, Windows, GP2X Wiz and Caanoo.
The library is under Eiffel Forum License v2.
The project use those libraries: SDL, SDL_image, SDL_gfx, SDL_ttf, OpenAL, Libsndfile and FFMPEG LibAV.
Please note that the library do not work very well with the new versions of FFMPEG LibAV. Sorry about that, this will not be corrected. In the version 2, th library will use another external library for video procesing.
- I assume that you already have a functional EiffelStudio on your system. If not, install it. Also be sure that the EiffelStudio binary (ec, finish_freezing, etc.) are in the PATH.
- Rename the "eiffel_game_lib" folder to "game".
- You need to add the game library in the "contrib/library" folder of EiffelStudio. Normally, this folder is in "/usr/lib/EiffelStudio_XX.XX" or in "/usr/local/Eiffel_XX.XX".
- You need to install the C libraries SDL, SDL_image, SDL_gfx, SDL_ttf, OpenAL, libsndfile and all their development tools kit and dependencies:
sudo apt-get install libsdl-dev libsdl-image1.2-dev libsdl-gfx1.2-dev libsdl-ttf2.0-dev libopenal-dev libsndfile1-dev libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev libswscale-dev libavresample-dev
- Execute the "compile_c_library.sh" script (from the "game" directory).
- Create a project and add the libraries you need (".ecf" file) in the project.(You can use the EIFFEL_LIBRARY environment variable to add those libraries. For example: $EIFFEL_LIBRARY/contrib/library/game/game_core_lib/game_core_lib.ecf .
See here: https://github.com/tioui/eiffel_game_lib/tree/Windows_Build
- You must have EiffelStudio. If you don't have it already, install it.
- Rename the "eiffel_game_lib" folder to "game".
- You need to add the "game" library folder in the "contrib/library" folder of EiffelStudio. Normally, this folder is in "c:\Program Files\Eiffel Software".
- You need to install the C libraries dependencies. To get them, download the file C_library_Windows.zip . When you extract the file, you should have a C_lib_win directory. Put the C_lib_win directory in the root directory of the Eiffel Game Lib repository directory.
- Using the "EiffelStudio command prompt" (look in the Windows "Start" menu), execute the "compile_c_library.bat" script.
- Create a project and add the libraries you need (".ecf" file) in the project.(You can use the EIFFEL_LIBRARY environment variable to add those libraries. For example: $EIFFEL_LIBRARY/contrib/library/game/game_core_lib/game_core_lib.ecf .
- Put all ".dll" files of the C_lib_win\DLL32 directory in the new project directory or in the C:\Windows\System32\ (or in SysWOW64 if you use a 64bits Windows).
- Please note that since the libav C library does not support the Visual C compiler, the audio video library (to play movie) will not compile with Visual C compiler.
- Install EiffelStudio (I am using the 13.11 version).
- You need to add the "game" library folder in the "contrib/library" folder of EiffelStudio. Normally, this folder is in "/Applications/MacPorts/Eiffel_XX.XX/".
- You need to get some files to adjust SDL on Mac OS X. To get them, download the file https://github.com/downloads/tioui/eiffel_game_lib/C_lib_mac.tar.gz . When you extract the file, you should have a C_lib_mac directory. Put the C_lib_mac directory in the root directory of the Eiffel Game Lib repository directory.
- You need to install the C libraries SDL, SDL_image, SDL_gfx, SDL_ttf, OpenAL, libsndfile, ffmpeg library and all their development tools kit and dependencies. You can install them with MacPort by installing the port libsdl-framework, libsdl_gfx-framework, libsdl_image-framework, libsdl_ttf-framework, libsndfile and ffmpeg-devel.
- OpenAL must be install another way. For that, install cmake using MacPort. Extract the file "openal-soft-1.14.tar.bz2" found in the C_lib_mac.tar.gz archive downloaded in before. Once extract, open a terminal a go into the directory build of the created directory of the archive extraction. Compile the library and install it
cd /path/to/openal-soft-1.14/build
cmake -DEXAMPLES=OFF ..
make
sudo make install
- Now copy all SDL installed library from the /opt/local/Library/ to the /Library directory.
sudo cp -rp /opt/local/Library/Frameworks/SDL*.framework /Library/Frameworks/
- Now, ready for the hard part? The SDL library need a specific Main in the C program and also need to have an "#include <SDL.h>" in the same C file that the on that contain the main. It is evident that EiffelStudio don't respect these necessities from SDL. We will have to do a little hack to allow EiffelStudio to use SDL. We will make the hack in a new EiffelStudio application (a copy), so don't worry, your EiffelStudio should not be harm by this hack.
- Open a terminal a go to the directory Eiffel_XX.XX (most likely Eiffel_13.11).
cd $ISE_EIFFEL
- Copy the macosx-x86-64 specs to macosx-x86-64-SDL:
sudo cp -rp studio/spec/macosx-x86-64 studio/spec/macosx-x86-64-SDL
sudo cp -rp studio/config/macosx-x86-64 studio/config/macosx-x86-64-SDL
- Modify the C file template to fit the SDL necessities. Use your favourite text editor (I use vim):
sudo vim studio/config/macosx-x86-64-SDL/templates/emain.template
- Change the line 11:
Before: (EMPTY)
After: #include "SDL.h"
- Change the line 15:
Before: (EMPTY)
After: extern char **environ;
- Change the line 16:
Before: int main (int argc, char ** argv, char ** envp)
After: int main (int argc, char ** argv)
- Change the line 26:
Before: (EMPTY)
After: char **envp = environ;
- Save and quit the text editor.
- Now, when you launch estudio, change the ISE_PLATFORM environment variable from macosx-x86-64 to macosx-x86-64-SDL.
- Now, you have to compile the C files used by the Eiffel Game Library. To do this, go to the "game" library, set the correct C flags and execute compile_c_library.sh script.
export ISE_PLATFORM=macosx-x86-64-SDL # Just to be sure
cd $ISE_EIFFEL/contrib/library/game
export CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -I/opt/local/include"
./compile_c_library.sh
- You can also compile the C files for the macosx-x86-64 target if you don't use the "game_core_lib" (for example if you create a console audio player).
export ISE_PLATFORM=macosx-x86-64 # Just to be sure
cd $ISE_EIFFEL/contrib/library/game
export CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -I/opt/local/include"
./compile_c_library.sh
- Create a project and add the libraries you need (".ecf" file) in the project.(You can use the EIFFEL_LIBRARY environment variable to add those libraries. For example: $EIFFEL_LIBRARY/contrib/library/game/game_core_lib/game_core_lib.ecf .
- Note that the spec that we create has no precompile library. It will be necessary to remove the default Precompile library in the project.