Hi
I’m new here, I would like to buy a gameshell and try some c++ programmings on gameshell. So I am investigating what I can do on gameshell. I looked over the topics but still don’t have a general idea about how to do this.
What I know is gameshell is running linux with arm cpu, as far as I know, I can compile a c++ program
and run it on gameshell in a few minutes.
Any reference/docs will help, Thanks.
There are alot of good docs and tutorials for Raspberry, you could refer to them for example the ones from element14:
https://www.element14.com/community/community/code_exchange/blog/2013/01/02/c-tutorial--hello-raspberry-pi
They are pretty complete and cover most important topics:
01 - Hello Raspberry Pi
02 - Reading User Input
03 - If Statement
04 - For Loops
05 - While Loops
06 - Functions
07 - Data Types
08 - Arrays
09 - Structures
10 - Classes
11 - Pointers
12 - Dynamic Arrays
13 - Linked List
14 - Linked List Operations
15 - STL List/Vector
16 - Templates
17 - Inheritance
18 - File I/O
19 - Strings
20 - Constants
21 - Hash Tables
It says there Raspbian comes with all of the tools that we need to start programming, so let’s dive in.
They are meaning that the g++ compiler is installed already.
I can´t remember if GameShell had g++ by default, in any case you could install it with
sudo apt-get install g++
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Thanks for the link/docs.
Actually I’m a game programmer working on console/ios games. but I am not familar with hardware like clockworkpi/Raspberry Pi. I’m confused about the workflow on GameShell.
Please correct me if I’m wrong.
- GameShell runs a linux based Debian. So I could do almost “everthing” that I can do on linux based system.
- GameShell has a launcher, which has GUI for setting, launching other apps, etc.
- I can install programs like RetroArch, with compiling source and configure them on GameShell.
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There is no GPU driver right now but the board contains a Mali400 GPU. There are some software renderings there.
It seems that v0.3 has a lima opengl driver for this.
- I can compile source on GameShell, meanwhile I can compile source on PC(with arm configure) and run it on GameShell.
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