Build the library

Table of Contents

• CMake
• Make

If you have experience with a personal workflow, you can build Candle as a regular SFML library and the demo as an executable. You just have to add the include folder to your include path and use demo.cpp and src/* as the source files.

If that's not the case, there are two alternatives.

CMake

You can build the static library and the demo program using CMake.

mkdir build && cd build
cmake .. -DBUILD_DEMO=ON
cmake --build .

This will generate libCandle-s.a or (Candle-s.lib on Windows) in build/lib folder and the demo program (or demo.exe) in build/bin.

If CMake can't manage to find the SFML files, you might need to use the option -DSFML_ROOT="path/to/sfml" or alternatively set SFML_ROOT inside the CMakeLists.txt manually (uncomment and complete line 15).

Make

For Linux users, the old Candle build system is still available. You just have to

make release

to build libCandle-s.a and the demo program inside the release folder. Alternatively, you can use

make debug

to build the debug version inside the debug folder.