VVVVVV

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Misa 054c24a7c2 Add official, M&P, no custom levels, and no editor builds to CI CI builds were added to this repository on the first day it was released, and haven't really been touched since then. And since then, 2.3 has added NO_CUSTOM_LEVELS, NO_EDITOR, and OFFICIAL_BUILD builds to the CMake file. On top of the MAKEANDPLAY define already existing, this means CI coverage is a bit sparse - covering compile failures for changes made to most of the codebase, except for Steam and GOG, and not covering compile failures if certain parts of the code get stripped out. And people do forget to check for those configurations as well. These mess of configurations is kind of a wake-up call to refactor and generalize the code a bit, because we would probably be able to get rid of at least two of these (Make & Play, and no-custom-levels) by making it so custom levels behave indistinguishably from the main game. But, that's something to do in 2.4. At the very least, we should cover these in CI right now. On a small note, I had to add a MAKEANDPLAY configure option to the CMake file to be able to easily configure a Make & Play build from the CI runner. This option shouldn't really be used otherwise, so I added a note to it telling people to consider modifying MakeAndPlay.h instead.		2020-12-27 11:18:54 -05:00
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src	Use SDL_arraysize() - 1 to take length of INTERIM_COMMIT	2020-12-26 00:57:51 -05:00
.gitignore	Don't recompile all files when the commit hash is changed	2020-12-25 20:17:01 -05:00
CMakeLists.txt	Add official, M&P, no custom levels, and no editor builds to CI	2020-12-27 11:18:54 -05:00
CONTRIBUTORS.txt	Fix entities in the Warp Zone's gray tileset not being gray in the editor (#480 )	2020-09-25 13:35:03 -04:00
README.md	Add note to README about "compiler quirks" only applying to 2.2	2020-06-21 20:51:04 -04:00
version.cmake	Update commit hash every time it changes, not just when CMake is re-ran	2020-12-26 00:15:47 -05:00

README.md

How to Build

VVVVVV's official desktop versions are built with the following environments:

Windows: Visual Studio 2010
macOS: Xcode CLT, currently targeting 10.9 SDK
GNU/Linux: CentOS 7

The engine depends solely on SDL2 and SDL2_mixer. All other dependencies are statically linked into the engine. The development libraries for Windows can be downloaded from their respective websites, Linux developers can find the dev libraries from their respective repositories, and macOS developers should compile and install from source (including libogg/libvorbis/libvorbisfile).

Steamworks support is included and the DLL is loaded dynamically, you do not need the SDK headers and there is no special Steam or non-Steam version. The current implementation has been tested with Steamworks SDK v1.46.

To generate the projects on Windows:

# Put your SDL2/SDL2_mixer folders somewhere nice!
mkdir flibitBuild
cd flibitBuild
cmake -G "Visual Studio 10 2010" .. -DSDL2_INCLUDE_DIRS="C:\SDL2-2.0.10\include;C:\SDL2_mixer-2.0.4\include" -DSDL2_LIBRARIES="C:\SDL2-2.0.10\lib\x86\SDL2;C:\SDL2-2.0.10\lib\x86\SDL2main;C:\SDL2_mixer-2.0.4\lib\x86\SDL2_mixer"

Note that on some systems, the SDL2_LIBRARIES list on Windows may need SDL2/SDL2main/SDL2_mixer to have .lib at the end of them. The reason for this inconsistency is unknown.

To generate everywhere else:

mkdir flibitBuild
cd flibitBuild
cmake ..

macOS may be fussy about the SDK version. How to fix this is up to the whims of however Apple wants to make CMAKE_OSX_SYSROOT annoying to configure and retain each time Xcode updates.

Including data.zip

You'll need the data.zip file from VVVVVV to actually run the game! It's available to download separately for free in the Make and Play edition of the game. Put this file next to your executable and the game should run.

This is intended for personal use only - our license doesn't allow you to actually distribute this data.zip file with your own forks without getting permission from us first. See LICENSE.md for more details. (If you've got a project in mind that requires distributing this file, get in touch!)

A Word About Compiler Quirks

(Note: This section only applies to version 2.2 of the source code, which is the initial commit of this repository. Since then, much hard work has been put in to fix many undefined behaviors. If you're compiling the latest version of the source code, ignore this section.)

This engine is super fussy about optimization levels and runtime checks. In particular, the Windows version absolutely positively must be compiled in Debug mode, with /RTC enabled. If you build in Release mode, or have /RTC disabled, the game behaves dramatically different in ways that were never fully documented (bizarre softlocks, out-of-bounds issues that don't show up in tools like Valgrind, stuff like that). There are lots of things about this old code that could be cleaned up, polished, rewritten, and so on, but this is the one that will probably bite you the hardest when setting up your own build, regardless of platform.

We hope you'll enjoy messing with the source anyway!

Love, flibit