2D Game programming... where to begin?

[MrTrollFace]

So... What is cmake? Is it necessary?

[Dy7SLyTq]

its the windows version of make, and is helpful to build from source

[MrTrollFace]

So is it necessary? Whatever I'm getting it.

[naraku9333]

DTSCode wrote:

its the windows version of make

It's a build system that generates makefiles and projects for different environments. It's used on windows mac and linux.

@MrTrollFace
Yes it is necessary.

[cire]

its the windows version of make, and is helpful to build from source

No, it is not the Windows version of make.

The blurb at http://www.cmake.org/ does a fair job of describing what cmake is.

No, it's not necessary. Yes, it will make things easier for you if you want to compile the source of SFML yourself (which I would recommend.)

[MrTrollFace]

I get a lot of errors. What am I missing?

[MrTrollFace]

I downloaded the source code and extracted it. Downloaded and installed cmake 2.8.11.2 and I had installed code blocks. So I run cmake-gui and enter ...\SFML-2.1\src in the source and the bin folder for the other one so what is wrong. Should I install the Cmake in the same folder that codeblocks is installed?

@naraku9333
I don't have any

\build

folder anywhere in the source code compressed file that I downloaded from the site

EDIT: Sorry, I found where my mistake was

[MrTrollFace]

CMAKE_CODEBLOCKS_EXECUTABLE-NOTFOUND

Is it important or should I just press generate?

[MrTrollFace]

So whatever... After generation what should you do?

[Dy7SLyTq]

sorry... my mistake... i dont know why i thought it was the windows version of make