Skeeball K

Dependencies

• Haxe 4.2.3
• HashLink 1.11.0
• haxelib libraries:
  • heaps 1.9.1
  • format 3.5.0
  • hashlink 0.1.0
  • hldx 1.10.0
  • hlsdl 1.10.0 (this is the SDL alternative to hldx's DirectX)
  • hlopenal 1.5.0
  • oimophysics 1.2.2 w/ mods from synkarius Github fork
  • tweenxcore 1.0.4
  • utest 1.13.2
• Build Tools for Visual Studio (2019)

Setup

Prerequisites

1. Install Haxe.
2. Install HashLink.
3. Set the environmental variable HASHLINK_PATH to the directory containing hl.exe.
4. Install haxelib libraries via setup-dependencies.bat.
5. Install Build Tools for Visual Studio and set up. You don't need Visual Studio itself, just the command line tools.
6. Set the environmental variable VCVARS_PATH to the directory containing vcvars64.bat. This might be:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\BuildTools\VC\Auxiliary\Build

Compilation

Run c_compile.bat. This will produce main.exe. The process is explained in comments in the batch file.

Distribution

1. Copy file.pak, main.exe, and everything in /dist-reqs into the dist zip.
2. You can switch between DirectX and SDL/OpenGL. SDL may be more stable. Do this by changing the following:

libs.hxml:

# -lib hldx
-lib hlsdl

c_compile.bat: delete

    "%HASHLINK_PATH%\directx.lib" ^

and add

    "%HASHLINK_PATH%\sdl.lib" ^

3. Can (must) distribute mscvr120.dll for Windows builds, per this.

Running Unit Tests

Run the following command to run the test suite.

haxe test.hxml

Notes

Haxe/Hashlink Compatibility

Lots of libraries appear to be incompatible with either Haxe 4.x.x (this was the case with Oimophysics) or Hashlink (this was the case with polygonal-ds). For this reason, minimizing the amount of libraries used seems optimal.