Xenon

Xenon is lightweight infrastructure for writing a game in C++ using OpenGL.

Features

Xenon currently supports the following features

• Cross-platform (tested on Windows, OS X, Linux)
• Windowing support
• Graphics initializatation
• Input handling and compositing
• Game 'screen' state machine

In the future, Xenon will also be extended to support

• Asset caching
• Texture management
• Rigid-body physics and collision detection

Compiling

Prerequisites

Qt 5.x

Xenon currently uses Qt5 for cross-platform windowing support, although this is abstracted away from you when you use Xenon. To use Xenon, you'll need to set up Qt5 on your machine. You'll also need to make sure you have qmake in your PATH.

GLEW

To ease the process of using the latest OpenGL versions available on each respective platform, Xenon relies on GLEW.

Building

Once the prerequisites are set up and working correctly, all you need to build xenon is to run

qmake && make

The result will be either libxenon.a or xenon.lib, depending on your host platform.

Linking to Xenon

To link to xenon, point your include path to the include/ directory in this repository, and point your linker to the libxenon.a or xenon.lib you compiled from this repository.

Since Xenon is a static library, you'll also need to make sure the project that links to Xenon also links to the prerequisites (Qt 5.x and GLEW).