Kade-Engine/BUILDING.md

Building Friday Night Funkin': Kade Engine

Please note that these instructions are for compiling/building the game. If you just want to play Kade Engine, play in your browser or download a build instead: play in browser ⋅ latest stable release ⋅ latest development build (windows) ⋅ latest development build (linux). If you want to build the game yourself, continue reading.

Also note: you should be familiar with the commandline. If not, read this quick guide by ninjamuffin.

Also also note: To build for Windows, you need to be on Windows. To build for Linux, you need to be on Linux. You can build for html5/browsers on any platform.

Dependencies

1. Install Haxe 4.1.5. You should use 4.1.5 instead of the latest version because the latest version has some problems with Friday Night Funkin': Kade Engine.
2. After installing Haxe, Install HaxeFlixel.
3. Install git.
   • Windows: install from the git-scm website.
   • Linux: install the git package: sudo apt install git (ubuntu), sudo pacman -S git (arch), etc... (you probably already have it)
4. Install and set up the necessary libraries:
   • haxelib install lime 7.9.0
   • haxelib install openfl
   • haxelib install flixel
   • haxelib run lime setup
   • haxelib run lime setup flixel
   • haxelib install flixel-tools
   • haxelib run flixel-tools setup
   • haxelib install flixel-addons
   • haxelib install flixel-ui
   • haxelib install hscript
   • haxelib install newgrounds
   • haxelib install linc_luajit
   • haxelib git faxe https://github.com/uhrobots/faxe
   • haxelib git polymod https://github.com/larsiusprime/polymod.git
   • haxelib git discord_rpc https://github.com/Aidan63/linc_discord-rpc

Windows-only dependencies (only for building to Windows. Building html5 on Windows does not require this)

If you are planning to build for Windows, you also need to install Visual Studio 2019. While installing it, don't click on any of the options to install workloads. Instead, go to the individual components tab and choose the following:

• MSVC v142 - VS 2019 C++ x64/x86 build tools
• Windows SDK (10.0.17763.0)
• C++ Profiling tools
• C++ CMake tools for windows
• C++ ATL for v142 build tools (x86 & x64)
• C++ MFC for v142 build tools (x86 & x64)
• C++/CLI support for v142 build tools (14.21)
• C++ Modules for v142 build tools (x64/x86)
• Clang Compiler for Windows
• Windows 10 SDK (10.0.17134.0)
• Windows 10 SDK (10.0.16299.0)
• MSVC v141 - VS 2017 C++ x64/x86 build tools
• MSVC v140 - VS 2015 C++ build tools (v14.00)

This will install about 22 GB of crap, but is necessary to build for Windows.

Cloning the repository

Since you already installed git in a previous step, we'll use it to clone the repository.

1. cd to where you want to store the source code (i.e. C:\Users\username\Desktop or ~/Desktop)
2. git clone https://github.com/KadeDev/Kade-Engine.git
3. cd into the source code: cd Kade-Engine
4. (optional) If you want to build a specific version of Kade Engine, you can use git checkout to switch to it (i.e. git checkout 1.4-KE) (remember that versions 1.4 and older cannot build to Linux or HTML5)
   • You should not do this if you are planning to contribute, as you should always be developing on the latest version.

Building

Finally, we are ready to build.

• Run lime build <target>, replacing <target> with the platform you want to build to (windows, linux, html5) (i.e. lime build windows)
• The build will be in Kade-Engine/export/<target>/bin, with <target> being the target you built to in the previous step. (i.e. Kade-Engine/export/windows/bin)
  • Only the bin folder is necessary to run the game. The other ones in export/<target> are not.