Chess in SFML

Language and framework used

Developed entirely in C++ using the SFML library and compiled in Visual Studio Code.

Supported OS for Automatic Builds

Windows, since the provided SFML library in the repo is for Windows, that too targeting 32-bit platform, but even if you have a 64-bit platform you can use the automatic build.

Manual Build

• For manually building the project, just download the latest stable version of the SFML library from downloads for your OS and follow the steps from the documentation, it is quite easy to follow.
• Also don't forget to move the "main" application file after building to "Builds" folder for a successful run

Note: I highly suggest you to use Visual Studio for building this project since it is quite simple to set all the required properties in it

Automatic Build

• For building automatically, you should have any Microsoft Windows OS and a 32-bit mingw
• In case you have a 64-bit compiler, just download the 64-bit headers and linking files from this site and replace the files in the directory for a successful build
• If you have some other compiler (like Visual C++) then you can replace the files in the directory by downloading the headers and linking files from this site or you can simply install mingw

Note: The project would not build with 64-bit compilers if you don't replace the files

• When everything is done, compile the "build.cpp" file by the following command:

g++ build.cpp -o build.exe

• When everything is done, just open a command prompt window in the working directory and build using the following command:

build main

The above command will build the main.cpp and automatically run it. It is quite important to know that it is not limited for just building main.cpp. For eg, if you want to build a file scan.cpp then you can issue the following command:

build scan

Basically

build fileName for any fileName.cpp

You can also build multiple files

build fileName1 fileName2 fileName3 ...

Be sure to not build and use build.cpp for any other OS except Windows as it will be of no use.

Behind the scenes

Why did you choose chess? Why use SFML when there are better alternatives like ImGui, GuiLite or OpenGL? I know all of this stuff, but this is my first public repo and I really didn't have any great ideas back in the day. Any feedbacks or suggestions would be open-handedly accepted.

Motivation

In short, the chess game! I like it and I have played it a lot in my childhood days.