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Help => General => Topic started by: Deedolith on December 06, 2024, 09:51:33 pm

Title: Build SFML from source, DLLs are nowhere to be seen
Post by: Deedolith on December 06, 2024, 09:51:33 pm

Hello,

I am having troubles building SFML from source.
Here are the steps I did:
- Clone the github repository with GitHub Desktop.
- Configure the project with CMake
- Generate the project with CMake (all options left to default values).
- Open the project with Visual Studio 2022.
- Build Debug/x64 and Release/x64 (no option change).

There are no compile errors, libraries (.lib files) are generated, but no DLLs.
Did I miss something ?

Title: Re: Build SFML from source, DLLs are nowhere to be seen
Post by: eXpl0it3r on December 06, 2024, 11:54:23 pm

With SFML 3 (master) we've changed the default behavior to match CMake's default behavior by building static libraries, if nothing has been specified.
If you want to build shared libraries, you can set BUILD_SHARED_LIBS to ON.

See also the migration guide (https://github.com/SFML/SFML/blob/master/migration.md) if you're coming from SFML 2

Title: Re: Build SFML from source, DLLs are nowhere to be seen
Post by: Deedolith on December 07, 2024, 12:12:27 am

I do not see such entry within CMake, should I add it ?

Title: Re: Build SFML from source, DLLs are nowhere to be seen
Post by: TheIrishDev on December 07, 2024, 03:08:32 am

I believe he is trying to say when you are to build SFML, you need to specify "-DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=On" in a string of commands like "cmake . -B "build" -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=On".

Title: Re: Build SFML from source, DLLs are nowhere to be seen
Post by: eXpl0it3r on December 29, 2024, 08:20:06 pm

And if you use the CMake GUI then add it, yes.