Notes

• We are using multiple renderers so to make it simple we are going to implement render API abstraction to avoid conflicts yet we still need to be render-API specific.

• Even though we will be building our engine with C++, we still want to implement a higher-level language like C# and Lua...(ew).

• For now, we will focus on Windows and OpenGl but we are still abstract for future aspects.

• We want to build our engine into a DLL and make an exe. After that, we link our engine to the exe file.

• Output Directory: $(SolutionDir)bin$(Configuration)-$(Platform)$(ProjectName)\ So this file path, specifically bin stores all of our stuff, including binaries, libraries and project files.

• Intermediate Directory: $(SolutionDir)bin-int$(Configuration)-$(Platform)$(ProjectName)\ So this file path is for older files like obj files that are created after compilation.

• Sandbox will be our .exe and DEWEngine will be our .dll

• For Logging, we will add the spdlog as a submodule. All third-party libraries will be in the "vendor" folder in the DEWEngine folder.

• We made the log messages function as Macros to give us the ability to strip the code from distribution builds.

• For generating project files for different platforms we will be using Premake which takes advantage of Lua...EW!!

  • For Premake we will make another vendor folder in which we will create a bin folder to add the exe to, however this is for the entire solution as opposed for just the DEWEngine Solution alone.