How to convert c++ with raylib engine into a downloadable apps

[primal pasture]

I made a functionable offline chess and i wanna create an apps that is downloadable and playable for others

[grave badger]

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[arctic sonnet]

If you can run it yourself, you already have an .exe you can send to others

It has to be bundled with some .dll though. What compiler are you using?

[primal pasture]

C++

May you explain the .dll thingy

[primal pasture]

I run it on vscode with F5

But not an app

[arctic sonnet]

C++ is a language. A compiler is a program that converts programs written in a language into executables you can run

vscode is not a compiler either

It runs one of the compilers when you press f5, most probably

You're using either GCC (might also be called MinGW), Clang, or MSVC

[primal pasture]

Oh

Mingw

[arctic sonnet]

Aha

[arctic sonnet]

That still creates an .exe somewhere

[primal pasture]

In my folder?

[arctic sonnet]

Probably, depends on how you've set it up

[primal pasture]

https://github.com/Chris-lab-lab/Offline-Chess

Nowhere to be seen

[arctic sonnet]

Well yes, because you have *.exe in your gitignore

Which is correct, you don't want it in git

(you don't want the .dlls in git either)

Look around in this directory, it should be there somewhere

[primal pasture]

Oh i did not pay attention to it cuz i downloaded raylib template from yt

[primal pasture]

Why is it

[arctic sonnet]

That's why I dislike templates

[arctic sonnet]

First of all, they are only useful for you, because any person downloading your source might use a different compiler with different dlls

[primal pasture]

I dont understand how to manually setup cuz of the Makefile..

[arctic sonnet]

And second of all, they are quite large, and putting large file in git makes the whole repository larger. Even if you delete the dlls in the next commit, they'll remain in the git history, permanently making the repo larger, so it takes longer to clone, etc

Probably not a big deal for just the two dlls and a toy game, but I've seen repos that takes minutes to clone because the devs uploaded all kinds of junk to git

[arctic sonnet]

I guess you can keep using it for now, you just need to find the .exe

It's probably right in the project directory. If you don't see it, can you screenshot all the contents?

[primal pasture]

ill look for it

but question

Ill include dll in gitignore?

and remeove exe from gitignore?

Eh

i should still include the exe and dll tho

And post it into releases

Is it like that..?

[arctic sonnet]

No, keep both

[arctic sonnet]

Yeah, that works

Zip the exe and dlls together

And don't forget any images your game loads, if any

[primal pasture]

Ok!

Ill try

tysm

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[primal pasture]

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[sweet lance]

did u ear about static link ?

[west plaza]

Every platform is different

In windows you ship your .exe files with shared libs in the same dir

On Mac you have something called a .app bundle, which dictates a project structure

On Linux the same way with either distro based packages or appimages

On android you have to use a specific project structure with a different build system and compiler