Building Schiffbruch

Prerequisites

• Schiffbruch currently only builds on Windows with Visual Studio
• Schiffbruch currently still uses some DirectDraw and DirectInput code, so you'll probably have to install the latest DirectX SDK - some Windows SDK might include the required libs already
• Schiffbruch makes use of SFML, you can find Visual Studio 2017 builds with statically linked runtime libs here

Building

• In the root directory of Schiffbruch create the directory extlibs
• Add the lib and include directories of the SFML package
• Open the Visual Studio project file in the build directory
  • If asked, convert to your Visual Studio version
  • You may have to change the Windows SDK version to the one you have installed
• Build Schiffbruch

Troubleshooting

• If you get linker errors with MDd/MTd mismatches, then you need to either use the SFML builds that have linked the runtime libraries statically (/MT or /MTd) or you need to change the project settings to use the dynamic versions of the runtime libraries (/MD or /MDd).
• If the SFML libraries can't be found, make sure you've copied them to the extlibs\lib and the headers to the extlibs\lib directory.
• If you get linker errors regarding DirectDraw functions, make sure you've the Direct X SDK installed.
• If your saved game gets deleted every time you recompile, then this is because the post-build script deletes the saved game file. You can disable/remove the script.