Game Development Reference
In-Depth Information
Creating a new sandbox project
First, to create a new sandbox executable, we need to declare a new Visual Studio demo
project within the Premake build scripts. You can add a new sandbox project by opening
the
SandboxDemos.lua
script and appending a new entry to the
SandboxDemos
table. In this case, you can name your
my_sandbox
demo or any other name you'd like.
The project name will determine the name of the executable that is built:
SandboxDemos.lua
:
SandboxDemos = {
"chapter_1_introduction",
...
"my_sandbox"
};
Note
All the heavy lifting of configuring a sandbox demo actually takes place in the
pre-
make.lua
file by the
CreateDemoProject
function. The
premake.lua
script
simply loops over all entries within the
SandboxDemos
table and creates the correspond-
ing projects, setting up the source files, project dependencies, library includes, and so on.
