Hybrid Switch/PC Example Application

This is an example OpenGL project using GLFW and GLM that builds and runs on both Switch and PC.

Features

• Uses OpenGL 4.3 (Core Profile)
• Loads shaders from the resources folder, or from RomFS on Switch
• Uses nxlink stdio on Switch to provide terminal output for debugging messages
• Has minimal platform-specific code
• Supports full-screen mode on PC (pressing Alt+Enter)
• Supports dynamic resolution changes (i.e. window resizes, or Switch docked/handheld mode changes)
• Supports gamepads on PC (such as Xbox controllers), or keyboard as fallback when no gamepads are detected
• Displays a world full of ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Building for Switch

To build for Switch, a standard development environment must first be set up. In order to do so, refer to the Getting Started guide.

(sudo) (dkp-)pacman -S switch-glfw switch-mesa switch-glm
make -j
nxlink -s hybrid_app.nro

Building for PC

To build for PC, the following components are required:

• meson/ninja build system
• A C++ compiler supporting the C++14 standard
• GLFW version 3.3 or higher (as a static library)
• GLM version 0.9.8 or higher

Please refer to the usual sources of information for your particular operating system. Usually the commands needed to build this project will look like this:

meson build
ninja -C build
./build/hybrid_app

Also, please note that the resources folder must be available in the working directory, otherwise the program will fail to find the shaders.

Building for Windows using msys2

msys2 provides all packages needed to build this project:

pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc mingw-w64-x86_64-meson mingw-w64-x86_64-ninja mingw-w64-x86_64-pkg-config mingw-w64-x86_64-glfw mingw-w64-x86_64-glm
LDFLAGS="-static" meson build
ninja -C build
./build/hybrid_app