SquareGL
Features -
- Smooth Translation - Click the mouse inside the square and drag.
- Scaling - Click the mouse near the edges and drag.
- Rotation - Click the mouse near the corners and drag.
Challenges -
Problem - Setting up OpenGL and SDL to work with my project in CLion on Linux Mint 18.2 Sonya.
Solution -
First I had to install SDL. OpenGL was already installed on my system. libsdl2-dev wasn’t easy to install via apt-get due to some broken packages present on my system as opposed to the versions of those packages that it needed. I fixed this by using the aptitude package manager to resolve the conflicts.
Since CLion’s project model is based on CMake, I had to figure out a way to use SDL and OpenGL with CMake. After some digging online, I was able to figure out how to create the CMakeLists file, setting the linker flags as required and got it working as expected.