Basics

Build System Overview

Dook uses the meson build system to fetch and manage dependencies, in addition, each subfolder in the src/ directory is a different library, this allows us to link some but not all of them, which is useful in case we don’t want to add in sdl support or json parsing and substitute them with other technologies.

To support this, dook makes use of a service locator infrastructure, that way we can write code without thinking about external dependencies. (for instance we can say ServiceLocator::graphics().draw()) without knowing which specific drawing backend is being used, more info on this can be found in Working with Services.

Coding standards

Dook code tries to use modern C++ coding standards, namely, we avoid using raw pointers and model resource acqusition using smart pointers and try to use RAII.

We use C++ 20 as the standard, and try to stay compatible with gcc and clang, these are tested in each push by our CI.