Merge pull request #36 from Blargian/windows_build

Update CmakeLists.txt for building on windows and add some informatio…

Author: alesbe

CMakeLists.txt

@@ -1,12 +1,45 @@
 cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.22)
 project(sorting-visualizer)
 
-set(SFML_DIR "lib/SFML-2.5.1/lib/cmake/SFML")
+set(default_build_type "Release")
+if(NOT CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE AND NOT CMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPES)
+  message( STATUS "Setting build type to '${default_build_type}' as none was specified.")
+  set(CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE "${default_build_type}" CACHE STRING "Choose the type of build." FORCE)
+  # Set the possible values of build type for cmake-gui
+  set_property(CACHE CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE PROPERTY STRINGS
+    "Debug" "Release" "MinSizeRel" "RelWithDebInfo")
+endif()
 
+set(SFML_DIR "C:/Program Files (x86)/SFML/lib/cmake/SFML")
 
-find_package(SFML COMPONENTS graphics window REQUIRED)
+find_package(SFML COMPONENTS graphics window CONFIG REQUIRED)
 
 add_executable(sorting-visualizer src/main.cpp src/Sortable.cpp src/SortAlgorithms.cpp src/SortController.cpp src/Utils.cpp)
 
 target_link_libraries(sorting-visualizer sfml-graphics sfml-window)
 
+# Copy across .dlls for windows users
+get_target_property(SFML_TYPE sfml-graphics TYPE)
+if(SFML_TYPE STREQUAL "SHARED_LIBRARY")
+  message(STATUS "Copying sfml-graphics DLLs to ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/$<CONFIG>")
+  add_custom_command(
+  TARGET sorting-visualizer POST_BUILD
+  COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E copy
+  $<TARGET_FILE:sfml-graphics>
+  ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/$<CONFIG>)
+  
+  message(STATUS "Copying sfml-window DLLs to ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/$<CONFIG>")  
+  add_custom_command(
+  TARGET sorting-visualizer POST_BUILD
+  COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E copy
+  $<TARGET_FILE:sfml-window>
+  ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/$<CONFIG>)
+  
+  message(STATUS "Copying sfml-system DLLs to ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/$<CONFIG>")  
+  add_custom_command(
+  TARGET sorting-visualizer POST_BUILD
+  COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E copy
+  $<TARGET_FILE:sfml-system>
+  ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/$<CONFIG>)
+endif()
+

README.md

@@ -53,3 +53,5 @@ Awesome! [Here](https://github.com/alesbe/sorting-visualizer/wiki) you can find
 
 ### 🖥️ Windows / MacOS
 The libraries included with the project only work with gcc compiler, for now, if you want to use it on Windows or macOS, you'll need to [download sfml](https://www.sfml-dev.org/download/sfml/2.5.1/) and compile the source code located in `/src` yourself.
+
+Once you have compiled the source files you can set `SFML_DIR` in `CMakeLists.txt` to the path which contains SFMLConfig.cmake. This will depend on where you have installed SFML to, for instance `C:/Program Files (x86)/SFML/lib/cmake/SFML`. From the root directory of the repository run `mkdir build cd build` and then run `cmake ..` to generate make files. For a list of generators you can type`cmake -G`. For instance if you want to build for the latest version of Visual Studio run `cmake -G 'Visual Studio 17 2022' ..` from within `/build`.