We will cover precompiled headers later on, so for now leave it checked. Finally, the Precompiled header checkbox is quite important, as this causes a file called StdAfx.cpp/StdAfx.h to be created which is the Microsoft way of supporting precompiled headers. If you leave “Empty project” unchecked, which we are going to do, it simply creates a default cpp ( pang.cpp in this case ) with the programs main() defined. First is the Application Type: which you basically choose at the first step when you selected to create a Console Application. There are a few things to be aware of here. If you click Next it will lead you to this dialog:įor now, you can leave everything exactly as it is and just click Finish. Simply click the Next button ( or Finish ). In the end, it doesn’t matter which you choose. If you don’t you will end up with a directory structure like C:PangPang. You can optionally uncheck “Create directory for solution”, which I always do when creating a single project solution file. Fill in the name, in this case, Pang ( which will automatically name the Solution the same thing ) and select a Location to save your project in. Selected the File –> New –> New Project… menu. I just went into a ton of detail because a small error in this step can lead to a very difficult process to discover the problem.įirst off, fire up Microsoft Visual C++ Express 2010. Warning, this is going to appear longer and a lot more daunting than it really is. As an upside to this, if you download the project from here, you don’t actually need to do any of this work! ( That said, you should still learn how! )Īlright, assuming you downloaded all the requisite files listed at the end of the last post, let’s get started. Also, it seems cleaner to me to only link to libraries when you actually need them. However, what it does allow is for anyone that downloads the project to automatically have the correct settings.

This has the downside of requiring you to do this configuration again and again ever time you create a new project. Myself, I configure on the project level whenever possible. Most tutorials configure your IDE settings globally, so the settings you change will affect every project you ever create. You will find these instructions vary from what you see in many other tutorials and there is one very good reason for that.

One thing to be aware of before we start. If you already know all about how to set Visual Studio up, or are working in a different IDE, feel free to skip to the next part. In this part, we are going to configure your development environment to work with SFML. This part is sadly rather dull, there will be absolutely no coding but it is a necessary evil.

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