Solum ~ A Simple Rendering Engine

Solum is a simple rendering engine written in C++ designed to allow runtime swapping of rendering drivers (i.e., OpenGL → DirectX 11 → Vulkan). This allows developers to experiment with various rendering backends without much setup work on their part. It utilizes modern C++ features and compiles with tools later than G++ 6 and MSVC 2017.

Solum comes with some utility interfaces to make using the rendering backends easier:

• A Windowing Interface.
• A Mathematics Interface.
• A User Input Interface.

Getting Started

Prerequisites

Windows

• Visual Studio 2017

Linux

• GNU Make
• G++ 6

Building

Windows

• Open the solution file Scripts/VS2017/Solum.sln in Visual Studio 2017.
• Run the build command.

Linux

• Open a terminal in the Build directory.
• Run the command make -f ../Scripts/Makefile

Using the Library

Windows

• Import the import library found at Build/<Arch>/<Config>/Output/Solum.lib.
• Include the headers in Include.
• Place the dynamic library found at Build/<Arch>/<Config>/Output/Solum.dll in your project's build directory.

Linux

• Include the headers in Include.
• Add the link flags -L Build/<Arch>/<Config>/Output -lsolum.
• Add /Build/<Arch>/<Config>/Output to your LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable.

Contributing

To contribute so Solum, take a look at the contributing guidelines, as well as the style guidelines.