deploy VS trivial-gamekit

Deploy also does this, but not just for Windows.

Use Deploy (https://github.com/shinmera/deploy) Or you might steal some ideas from Calm (https://github.com/VitoVan/calm) – it is able to build packages for different OS.

Yes, it can be a good choice for that - use e.g. https://github.com/Shinmera/deploy

I'd kind of like to see asdf:make and Deploy mentioned in such a post for completeness.

Try using deploy instead. It's built for stuff like this and takes care of foreign library dependencies like SDL2.

I had the same question, but I found the tool Deploy, which somehow gets all the necessary libraries to make the executable run smoothly and stores them in a folder called "bin". But I still can't get the program to run the GTK GUI.

– https://github.com/Shinmera/deploy

If you insist on learning through game development -- and admittedly I learn best by just jumping in and doing something -- you should at least try making something simpler than a full 3D game first, like a roguelike: https://github.com/borodust/trivial-gamekit, https://borodust.org/projects/trivial-gamekit/.

For something simple, https://github.com/borodust/trivial-gamekit would do.

Playing with their 'trivial-gamekit' based on cl-bodge now, very nice I think!

https://borodust.org/projects/trivial-gamekit/

alien-works also looks cool and under active development

If all else fails, I recommend trying to contact author through creating an issue on github. If that fails too and you are too tired to continue that fight, have a look at trivial-gamekit (beware: shameful self-plug).

Learn Common Lisp and high-level 2D graphics using Sketch or trivial-gamekit. It's lispy, super fun and enjoyable way. Seriously. 2D graphics are easy to grasp and intuitive.