Quick Setup for Windows with Visual Studio 2022, GCC, or MinGW

Raylib-Quckstart, the simple solution to get started quickly.

The quickstart is a cross platform template for all desktop platforms that will setup raylib automatically.

https://github.com/raylib-extras/raylib-quickstart

It works with many compilers on windows, linux and Mac OS. Works with makefiles, visual studio, and VSCode.

Simply follow the instructions in that link and you will be done, you do not need to use the rest of this document.

(Manual Setup) Download raylib

Get the raylib sources from https://github.com/raysan5/raylib Download the zip file, or clone the repository. It doens't matter what one you use. Put the raylib sources in a folder called raylib inside your game folder (The same folder this file is in). The folder must be named raylib, it can not be raylib-master. The raylib folder should contain all the sources from raylib (including the 'src' folder)

Example app

This repository is pre-populated with the raylib game template. It is a great starting point for your game. https://github.com/raysan5/raylib-game-template.

If you want to have a different starting point, simply replace the files in the game folder with your own files.

Using C++

By default this process is setup to build a project using C. If you want to use C++, you can replace these files with cpp files.

Generate Projects

For windows users, there are two batch files you can use depending on what compiler you are using. For linux users you can simply use a terminal. Only do ONE of these options depending on your compiler and platform.

Windows Users

Visual Studio users should run

premake-VisualStudio.bat

This will generate a Visual Studio project.

MinGW-w64 Users

Run the batch file.

premake-mingw.bat

This will generate a makefile for you

Linux users

cd to the game folder and run

./premake5 gmake2

This will generate a makefile for you.

Build your game

Only do ONE of these options depending on your compiler and platform.

Windows Users

Double click the .sln file that was generated in the folder. If you are using Visual Studio 2022 you will be asked to upgrade the project, the defaults are fine, accept them and it will load. From here you can use the project as normal.

MinGW-w64 Users

Open your compiler terminal (w64devkit if you are using it), change to the game folder and type

make

This will build your game

Linux users

Open your terminal, change to the game folder and type.

make

This will build your starting game template