What is olcPixelGameEngine?

The official distribution of olcPixelGameEngine, a tool used in user javidx9's C++ tutorial YouTube videos and projects. You only need the one file - olcPixelGameEngine.h - included in your project! Provides a fast, richly featured, cross platform pixel drawing and user interface framework for

• The development of games
• Visualization of algorithms
• Prototyping and experimentation
• Education
• Handcrafted C++ GUI

Source: https://github.com/OneLoneCoder/olcPixelGameEngine

olcPixelGameEngine with VSCode [Windows10]:

Requirement:

1. Latest VSCode for Windows [ Download ]
2. Latest MinGW from Winlibs with atleast GCC version 10.2.x [ Download ]

Note: This setup is tested with "GCC 10.2.0 + LLVM/Clang/LLD/LLDB 11.0.0 + MinGW-w64 8.0.0 - release 3" on Windows10 machine updated as on 18 November 2020.

It is assumed that the version of mingw you are using has the following Windows libs included:

• user32
• gdi32
• opengl32
• gdiplus
• Shlwapi
• dwmapi
• stdc++fs

You are not supposed to find this libs manually it comes with the compiler it self, So dont worry about it yet!

Configuration Steps:

• step1: Install VSCode as normal software installtion, no special steps required.
• step2: Open VSCode and press ctrl+shft+x and install C/C++ extension by Microsoft.

• step2: Winlibs Mingw comes with compressed file type, its stand alone prebuilt binary within single folder. No installation required, just copy and past it.
• step3: Extract xxmingwxx.7z and you will get mingw folder along with all the necessory files, so now copy mingw folder to C:/ drive manually.

• step4: Set windows environment variable path which points compiler as "C:\mingw64\bin"

• step5: Restart PC.
• step6: open widows terminal and type gcc --version it should give ouput as its installed version no.

Compiling Steps:

• step1: Make one new folder anywhere or preferably on your desktop. Example: "pge_test".

• step2: Clone/Download official OLC PGE repository [ Download ], And get two files named:

1. olcExampleProgram.cpp
2. olcPixelGameEngine.h

• step3: Similarly get .vscode folder from this repository.

• step4: Verify that you got .vscode folder with cloned or downloaded from THIS repository contents.
• step5: Now inside your "pge_test" folder, put this .vscode folder and two files downloaded in step1.

• step6: Open VScode
• step7: In VScode Home select File > Open Folder > and select your "pge_test" folder.

• step8: Now verify in VSCode IDE that folder and files are recognized and listed properly.

• step9: Open olcExampleProgram.cpp file with double click on it.
• step6: press "ctrl+shft+b"

• step7: You will get .exe named olcExampleProgram.exe in same directory
• step8: Run it in terminal with ./olcExampleProgram.exe command, it should run. Done!

If you are already experianced with VSCode IDE, then simply copy and past contents from: 1_c_cpp_properties.txt 2_tasks.txt files and modify it as per your convenience.

Manually with Terminal:

You can also compile PGE in MS terminal as well as VSCode terminal by following method. You must place both olcExampleProgram.cpp olcPixelGameEngine.h in same folder and run following command in MS Terminal or VScode Terminal:

g++ -std=c++17 olcExampleProgram.cpp -luser32 -lgdi32 -lopengl32 -lgdiplus -lShlwapi -ldwmapi -lstdc++fs

You will get the following O/P:

D:\ADesktop\vsCppWorkSpace\cpppge>g++ -std=c++17 olcExampleProgram.cpp -luser32 -lgdi32 -lopengl32 -lgdiplus -lShlwapi -ldwmapi -lstdc++fs

D:\ADesktop\vsCppWorkSpace\cpppge>a.exe

You should now able to see the output of sample program. Done!