LightYears Game

Core Dependencies

• GCC (GNU Compiler Collection)
  • Windows: Visual Studio Community 2022 Release - amd64
• CMake (Cross-platform make)
• Make (Build control tool)

SFML Dependencies

Graphics

• OpenGL: For rendering graphics.
  • Debian/Ubuntu: libgl1-mesa-dev

Windowing

• X11: For windowing on Unix-like systems.
  • Debian/Ubuntu: libx11-dev
• Xrandr: For managing screen resolution, rotation, and reflection.
  • Debian/Ubuntu: libxrandr-dev

Fonts

• freetype: For font rendering.
  • Debian/Ubuntu: libfreetype6-dev

Device Input

• Udev: For managing devices.
  • Debian/Ubuntu: libudev-dev

Audio

• FLAC: Free Lossless Audio Codec library.
  • Debian/Ubuntu: libflac-dev
• Vorbis: Audio compression codec library.
  • Debian/Ubuntu: libvorbis-dev
• OpenAL: Cross-platform 3D audio API.
  • Debian/Ubuntu: libopenal-dev

To install all required dependencies for the LightYears game project on WSL using Ubuntu/Debian, run the following command:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential cmake libgl1-mesa-dev libx11-dev libxrandr-dev libfreetype6-dev libudev-dev libflac-dev libvorbis-dev libopenal-dev