Setup Zig for Gamedev

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  • zls

    A Zig language server supporting Zig developers with features like autocomplete and goto definition

    • ZLS provides Visual Studio Code (or any other editor with LSP support) with features such as completions, goto definition, find references, rename symbol and format code. If you have git installed recursively clone the repository else you can download and extract an archive of the source from here: https://github.com/zigtools/zls/archive/master.zip. Also download and extract https://github.com/ziglibs/known-folders/archive/master.zip and https://github.com/ziglibs/zinput/archive/master.zip and extract them to the zls/src directory. Use your terminal (cmd.exe) to change into the zls directory and run zig build. If that was successful a zls.exe should exist in zig-cache/bin.

  • zig

    General-purpose programming language and toolchain for maintaining robust, optimal, and reusable software.

    • This is a step by step guide on how to get started with game development using the Zig programming language on Windows.

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  • SDL

    Simple Directmedia Layer

    • Having only text can be a bit boring. So, let's create a window for drawing some fancy graphics! I recommend the SDL2 library to do this. Grab https://libsdl.org/release/SDL2-devel-2.0.14-VC.zip and extract the archive to a known location such as C:\lib\. Edit your build.zig so it looks like this:

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