SDL2 Example using my C Makefile Template

Prerequisites

To compile and run this program you will need:

• C compiler, GCC
• GNU make
• SDL2
• SDL2_ttf

Linux using apt package manager (if you are using another package manager you probably know how to install it yourself)

sudo apt update
sudo apt install build-essential libsdl2-dev libsdl2-ttf-dev -y

Windows

On windows you can use something like msys2 to simplify the installation tutorial here. Otherwise you can use WSL2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux) tutorial here.

Linux to just get the makefile

wget -O makefile https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Phillezi/SDL_Example/master/makefile

Instructions

Windows

This assumes you are using mingw32. To build the project, simply run the following command. Since all is the first target in the Makefile, it will be executed by default. This command compiles all the .c files in the src directory into .o files and then links them to an executable specified in the Makefile (Target).

mingw32-make.exe

To build the project with debug flags, use the debug target. By default, it includes the -g flag for debugging information, this lets you debug the executable with programs like GDB.

mingw32-make.exe debug

For a list of available Makefile targets and their descriptions, you can use the help target.

mingw32-make.exe help

Unix-based (OS X / Linux)

To build the project, simply run the following command. Since all is the first target in the Makefile, it will be executed by default. This command compiles all the .c files in the src directory into .o files and then links them to an executable specified in the Makefile (Target).

make

To build the project with debug flags, use the debug target. By default, it includes the -g flag for debugging information, this lets you debug the executable with programs like GDB.

make debug

For a list of available Makefile targets and their descriptions, you can use the help target.

make help

Once the program is compiled, the object files will be stored in the out directory, and the executable will be generated in the root directory (the same directory as the Makefile).

Feel free to modify the Makefile to suit your project's specific requirements.