This is a template to make it easy to get started with live code reloading using BearLibTerminal.

Currently the live reloading is only tested/working on Linux, but the resulting program can be compiled in release mode for Linux and Windows. MacOS currently is untested.

Installing required lib on Linux

This program relies on libBearLibTerminal.so so that should be copied into usr/local/lib or another folder indicated by this command: ldconfig -v 2>/dev/null | grep -v ^$'\t'

then you should run sudo ldconfig to complete the installation.

Then the executable should run correctly.

Alternately if your OS has a package for BearLibTerminal, that may work as well.

Once that's done compiling in debug mode with cargo build and release mode with cargo build --release should work.

Compiling release mode for Windows

You will need a copy of the precompiled BearLibTerminal.dll and BearLibTerminal.lib.

Perform the folloing steps:

copy BearLibTerminal.lib to the project root

Comment out the line containing crate-type = ["dylib"] in the Cargo.toml in the state_manipulation folder. (this is more or less a workaround for this issue, hopefully we will eventually be able to make this switch using the cfg attribute, but currently using the attribute doesn't appear to work correctly.)

Run cargo build --release then copy the exe in ./target/release to the desired location as well as BearLibTerminal.dll and any necessary assets (graphics, sound, etc.).