SPARK Particle Engine

Build guide

Building the SPARK library and the demos

git clone https://github.com/Synxis/SPARK
cd SPARK
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DSPARK_BUILD_DEMOS:BOOL="1" ../projects
cmake --build . --config Release

Running a demo

cd SPARK/demos/bin
./Test_Simple (or just 'Test_Simple.exe' on Windows)

Building the SPARK library with Irrlicht support

cmake -DSPARK_BUILD_DEMOS:BOOL="1" \
	  -DSPARK_BUILD_IRRLICHT_MODULE:BOOL="1" \
	  -DSPARK_IRRLICHT_LIB:FILEPATH="/path/to/the/irrlicht/lib/filename" \
	  -DSPARK_IRRLICHT_INCLUDE_DIR:PATH="/path/to/the/folder/with/the/irrlicht/headers/"

cmake --build . --config Release

Extra notes

By default the compiled libraries and demos will be placed in:

    SPARK
    ├── lib/
    │   └── <system-name>@<generator>/
    |       └── static/
    |       └── dynamic/
    └── demos/
        └── bin/

• <system-name> is the name of your OS (ex: Windows)
• <generator> is the name of the generator used (ex: Visual Studio 10)

Available cmake variables:

• SPARK_USE_HARCODED_RUNTIME_OUTPUT_DIRS if set to FALSE it will make cmake use the build directory to output all the results of the compilation instead of using the hardcoded directory layout above.

• SPARK_STATIC_BUILD controls whether SPARK is built as a static or dynamic library.

• SPARK_IRRLICHT_USE_STATIC_LIBS controls whether SPARK will be linked with a static or dynamic Irrlicht library.

• SPARK_IRRLICHT_DEBUG is only available when using cmake with multi configuration generators. This variable sets the path to the file of the debug Irrlicht library. If using a visual studio generator without setting the SPARK_IRRLICHT_DEBUG variable the Debug configuration won't be available. Here's an example:

    cmake -DSPARK_BUILD_DEMOS:BOOL="1" \
    	  -DSPARK_BUILD_IRRLICHT_MODULE:BOOL="1" \
    	  -DSPARK_IRRLICHT_LIB:FILEPATH="/path/to/the/irrlicht/release/lib/filename" \
    	  -DSPARK_IRRLICHT_LIB_DEBUG:FILEPATH="/path/to/the/irrlicht/debug/lib/filename" \
    	  -DSPARK_IRRLICHT_INCLUDE_DIR:PATH="/path/to/the/folder/with/the/irrlicht/headers/"
  
    cmake --build . --config Release
    cmake --build . --config Debug