[build] Examples should build without the project being installed

[yurivict]

Currently, it doesn't find the header and the library.
I tried to create a FreeBSD port option that would have built and installed examples, but with the current setup this is impossible.

[a3f]

Is CMake an option? You could build the develop branch with

raylib/.travis.yml

Line 40 in d1ef686

- cmake -DMACOS_FATLIB=ON -DSTATIC_RAYLIB=ON -DSHARED_RAYLIB=ON -DBUILD_EXAMPLES=ON -DBUILD_GAMES=ON ..

[raysan5]

Sorry, don't understand this issue, you mean adding FreeBSD in release folder?

[yurivict]

No. Currently examples fail when raylib isn't installed.

[raysan5]

Currently examples fail when raylib isn't installed.

Is it not the expected behaviour? I mean, raylib examples require the library to be installed to be compiled. Excuse me if I'm missing the point...

[yurivict]

What I meant is that examples should build as part of the project using the locally built library.
For example, if I would like the port to install examples, they should be built as part of the project, and then installed. Currently it expects that the library is installed before it can build examples.

[raysan5]

Ok, I see, thanks for the clarification.

[RDR8]

I'm working on updates to the install target in src/Makefile that help with this situation. I'm on Linux but I suspect it could be useful with FreeBSD as well. Basically, it's the addition of RAYLIB_INSTALL_PATH and RAYLIB_H_INSTALL_PATH into the Makefiles to expose some control to the user at install time and copying all the the headers, not just raylib.h, to your local include directory. This lets one build and run the examples, etc against the library we just built. Currently, this isn't fully configured for Linux in src/ or examples/Makefile. From a beginner's point of view, it's not obvious that the examples are running against the stuff in release/ etc or even that it matters . For example, if one runs make clean after "installing" raylib, the examples won't work. It wipes the provided libraylib.a as well. It would be nice to have a fail-safe, maybe by moving build products to a new build/ dir instead of release/. I have a working configuration using the traditional /usr/local setup with standard utils but it's not quite done. It was perfect, until it wasn't. (^;

[RDR8]

Maybe take at look at #464 and see if it could be tweaked for FreeBSD.

[RDR8]

@yurivict , #480 is more progressive. It solves:

What I meant is that examples should build as part of the project using the locally built library.
For example, if I would like the port to install examples, they should be built as part of the project, aand report.nd then installed. Currently it expects that the library is installed before it can build examples.

on Linux. FreeBSD should be easy to integrate. It would take some time but if someone is familiar with the details...

@yurivict, if you have an opportunity to examine these changes, please report. Thank you!

[raysan5]

Just closing this issue. Please, feel free to reopen it if still not correct.