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I am attempting to use SFML for my next project, however I have yet to find reliable information on how to install SFML for MinGW, the page on the main SFML website is for using code::blocks, and I would prefer to keep using VS Code if I could. Additionally all of the tutorials for visual studio are for older versions where the UI is much different. I was hoping that someone who has installed it could guide me through the steps they used to install it. Thanks.

I am on Windows.

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Just to be clear, I have never used Visual Studio Code, but it supports Nuget Package Manager, so it should work the same as in the 'normal' Visual Studio. So after creating new project:

  • Your should be getting/installing Nuget Package Manager from here.
  • Then according to answers to this question, you should be able to Press Ctrl+P or Ctrl+Shift+P and search for SFML packages, and choose version 2.5.1.
  • There are five modules: Audio, Graphics, Network, System and Window, choose what you need or install all five.

As I said at the begining, I do not have a way to test it, but it should work.

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  • Wouldn’t that just allow VS to access the libraries? Whether or not VS marks it as correct or not is less important than my compiler being able to read the libraries. – Robonics014 Jan 19 '20 at 15:03
  • In standard VS it adds those modules to your project folder. You can then include them as you wish. This is what I understand by "install SFML for the project" – Hawky Jan 19 '20 at 15:06
  • I tried using NuGet to install the packages and was greeted by this error: `Cannot find any .csproj or .fsproj file for your project! Please fix this error and try again.` – Robonics014 Jan 19 '20 at 17:48
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This question is fairly old at this point but for anyone in the future wondering how I solved it, I ended up switching compilers to Clang and creating a .bat file the just runs clang++ and links the SFML lib directory. (SFML GCC-64 worked fine with Clang)

To fix any errors in VS Code, you can add SFML to the workspace config

in .vscode/c_cpp_properties.json: add or edit a field called "configurations" (should be an array), and add the following:

    "configurations": [
      {
        "name": "SFML",
        "intelliSenseMode": "clang-x64",
        "includePath": ["${defaultInclude}", "C:/libs/SFML/GCC-64-Bit/SFML-2.5.1/include"],
        "compilerPath": "C:/msys64/mingw64/bin/clang++.exe",
        "cStandard": "c11",
        "cppStandard": "c++17",
        "browse": {
          "path": ["${workspaceFolder}"],
          "limitSymbolsToIncludedHeaders": true,
          "databaseFilename": ""
        }
      }
    ]

You'll have to change some of the paths to fit your setup, and you could very well put this in your global C++ configuration.

Finally, make sure that the needed DLLs are copied to your compilation output directory

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