Running Crystal natively on Windows, building videogame examples

Notes¶

Downloads¶

• MS Build Tools: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/#build-tools-for-visual-studio-2019
• Crystal source: https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal → https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/archive/master.zip
• Crystal binaries: https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/actions?query=branch%3Amaster+is%3Asuccess+event%3Apush → https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/suites/616284570/artifacts/4797210
• SFML binaries: https://www.sfml-dev.org/download.php → https://www.sfml-dev.org/files/SFML-2.5.1-windows-vc15-64-bit.zip
• CrSFML: https://github.com/oprypin/crsfml → https://github.com/oprypin/crsfml/archive/master.zip

Commands¶

wzxhzdk:0

Wiki¶

• https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/wiki/Porting-to-Windows