Setting up your enviroment - Gornova/MarteEngine GitHub Wiki

This tutorial assumes a basic understanding of what Java is: if you don't know nothing about Java, feel free to ask or search online for tutorials.

1. Java Version

MarteEngine requires Java version 6 (Java Developer Kit when you develop, Java Runtime when you run the games), you can download the latest version from the Java web page

If you have already installed Java, check your installed version by typing java -version at your command line.

2. IDE

MarteEngine is developed with Eclipse (Helios version) but you can use it with your favourite Integrated Developement Enviroment.

3. Setup your first project

3.1 Complete way

  1. download latest version of MarteEngine here
  2. open Eclipse and create a new Java project and name it Test
  3. create lib directory into Test project and copy MarteEngine jar into the project's lib directory
  4. download Slick full distribution
  5. extract the Slick full distribution to any directory and copy the files slick.jar and lwjgl.jar into your Test project lib directory
  6. copy native files for lwjgl that match your system (windows, linux or mac) and unzip into a lib/native directory of your Test Project
  7. right click->Properties from Eclipse on lwjgl, select Native Library: use Workspace location and select lib/native

Now your system is ready to develop games with MarteEngine and you can continue with the Hello World tutorial.

MarteEngine version 0.3