SFML VS cmake-sfml-project

Take a look at SFML. Very easy to get started, and quite capable.

https://www.sfml-dev.org/

As for windows, you'd probably be alright looking into SFML, you can see their Getting Started tutorial for how to install it in your IDE of choice.

SFML (zlib/C++) https://github.com/SFML/SFML

SDL or SFML for drawing. They are both gfx libs but are used differently so read about what you thing suits you better.

Make a game with https://www.sfml-dev.org/ (I used SFML Rust to start learning Rust)

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.16) project(CMakeSFMLProject LANGUAGES CXX) include(FetchContent) FetchContent_Declare(SFML GIT_REPOSITORY https://github.com/SFML/SFML.git GIT_TAG 2.6.0) FetchContent_MakeAvailable(SFML) add_executable(CMakeSFMLProject src/main.cpp) target_link_libraries(CMakeSFMLProject PRIVATE sfml-graphics) target_compile_features(CMakeSFMLProject PRIVATE cxx_std_17)

Okay, so I'm assuming /Users/kadyr is the username for your mac, so let's say you are making an SFML Space Invaders clone. You'd make a directory invaders so it would be /Users/kadyr/invaders then make a CMakeLists.txt file in invaders and copy the contents of the template's [CMakeLists.txt](https://github.com/SFML/cmake-sfml-project/blob/master/CMakeLists.txt) into it. Next, in invaders directory create a build directory [/Users/kadyr/invaders/build] and a src director [/Users/kadyr/invaders/src] to put main.cpp and other code in (this one is just because the template looks for main.cpp in /src -- alternatively you could edit the add_executable() line and remove src/ if you plan to just dump all code into invaders directory). Then run the commands. Just change invaders to whatever you are naming the project and directory you're working on.

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Why didn't you just use brew to install SFML? What about building SFML 2.6.x instead of 2.5.1 which already has ARM Mac fixes you described? Have you already tried the official CMake project template which automates much for this for you?