GLFW CMake starter

This starter project shows how to use CMake to create a project with GLFW. The code is multi-platform and runs on Windows, Linux and MacOS.

Quickstart: glfw.org
GLFW on GitHub: github.com/glfw/glfw

Getting the code

The easiest way to get hold of the starter code is to run the following command using a shell you can run git from:

git clone --recursive https://github.com/AntohiRobert/GLFW-CMake-starter

If you are on Windows you can download git from git-scm.com/download/win and use the right click menu in Windows File Explorer to "Git Bash here" and then run git commands.

This will create the directory GLFW-CMake-starter and get the latest source code, using the --recursive option to download the GLFW code which is included in the repository as a submodule. If you want to run further git commands from the command line you'll need to cd into the directory:

cd GLFW-CMake-starter

Alternatively you can use a git GUI program such as Fork to get the code. Most of these will automatically download the git submodules.

Using CMake to create the project

From a command prompt in the GLFW-CMake-starter directory:

1. mkdir build
2. cd build
3. cmake ..
4. Either run make all or for Visual Studio open GLFW-CMake-starter.sln