Quartz

A library for making graphical applications and games

BEWARE: Quartz is still in its infancy meaning that API breaking changes are constantly being made, there is pretty much no documentation and cross platform support is still limited.

Game of Life in Quartz

demo-video.mp4

Code Example

#include <quartz.h>

int main() 
{
    quartz_start(900, 600, "My Blue Window");

    while(quartz_update())
    {
        quartz_clear(QUARTZ_BLUE);
    }

    quartz_finish();

    return 0;
}

Platform Support

The only platform supported right now is Windows.

Quartz uses OpenGL 4.3 internally so it can only run on systems with drivers that support it.

Using Quartz

You can use Quartz either as a static library or as a dynamic one, both versions are provided in the Precompiled Binaries

To use the dynamic version (quartzdyn) make sure to define the macro QUARTZ_DYNAMIC_LIB_IMPORT when compiling your project (on Windows you also need to link with quartzdyn.lib)

To use the static version (quartz) you need to link it when compiling your project. Depending on your platform you will also need to link with other native libraries:

• Windows - user32.lib, opengl32.lib and gdi32.lib

After setting up the library for using in your project, you just need to include quartz.h to get access to the API.

Building from source

To compile Quartz you will need a C++ compiler. At the moment of writing, any of the popular C++ compilers (MSVC, Clang and GCC) should work.

The main way of compiling the library is using the CMake build system.

To build the library you just need to follow these steps:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
cmake --build .

You can also specify some options to control what will be compiled and how it will be compiled:

• DYNAMIC - if ON compiles as a dynamic library otherwise as a static library
• EXAMPLES - if ON the examples will be compiled

These options can be specified on the third command of the build steps, for example this will generate a dynamic library without compiling the examples.

cmake -DDYNAMIC=ON -DEXAMPLES=OFF ..

Finally to explicitly select if you want a debug build or a release build you use the --config flag of the last build step, like this:

cmake --build . --config=debug
# OR
cmake --build . --config=release

License

Quartz is licensed under the MIT License