ThunderLib

ThunderLib is a C++ OpenGL engine made for learning purposes.

It spun off from the Hazel2D engine created by TheCherno, available at https://github.com/TheCherno/Hazel.

This repository contains the main engine inside the ThunderLib folder as well as some example projects in the Games folder. ThunderLib builds into a static library and is meant to contain common code intended for use in multiple applications. Games builds into an executable and links the Core static library, as well as provides an include path to Core's code.

The build_scripts/ directory contains build scripts for Windows and Linux, and the vendor/ directory contains Premake binaries and all the third-party dependencies.

Getting Started

1. Clone this repository
2. Open the build_scripts/ directory and run the appropriate Setup script to generate projects files.
3. Open the project files to build the project.

You can edit the setup scripts to change the type of project that is generated - out of the box they are set to Visual Studio 2022 for Windows and gmake2 for Linux (using the Clang compiler). Note that no macOS setup script is currently provided; you can duplicate the Linux script and adjust accordingly.

Note that as of April 2024, you need to use a compiler compatible with the C++23 standard as this codebase makes heavy use of modules. For Visual Studio, an installation of the current preview version of Visual Studio 2022 is recommended.

License and Credits

• MIT License for this repository (see LICENSE.md for more details)
• Premake is licensed under BSD 3-Clause (see included LICENSE.txt file for more details)
• stb is licensed under the MIT License (see included LICENSE.txt file for more details)
• miniaudio is licensed under the MIT License (see included LICENSE file for more details)
• ImGui is licensed under the MIT License (see included LICENSE.txt file for more details)
• GLM is licensed under the MIT License (see included copying.txt file for more details)
• GLFW is licensed under the Zlib License (see included LICENSE.md file for more details)
• glad generated code is Public Domain.