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Post by calthor on Dec 2, 2008 13:34:51 GMT -5
hi i'm new with lateral GM... so i would like to know if you can run games with it, does anyone if this is posible? and tell me how to do this?
i can't find anything that says how to run the game...
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Post by IsmAvatar on Dec 3, 2008 1:03:19 GMT -5
LGM is only an interface to edit your games with. It does not compile or run your games. For this, we have allowed plugins to extend the functionality of LGM. One such plugin is Enigma, which adds a few buttons to LGM and when you click those buttons, it will convert your game into C++, and then compile it with g++, so that you can run it.
The reason we took this route is because we didn't want to write our own compiler, since it's taking us long enough just to write the interface. Also, because when we do it through plugins, it allows us to support multiple different compilers of your choosing, so maybe some time later someone will finish a java compiler plugin, and you can choose whether you want your game converted to C++ or Java (or both). Also, other people have already been working on compilers, so it would be silly for us to write our own when we could just use theirs. And since Enigma is in an entirely different language, it's very difficult to implement it directly, but with a plugin, it becomes very easy.
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