If any fellow stumbles upon the repo, it's still very much in development. Honestly it's something very wholesome and fun to work on.

quick refs...

• https://wiki.libsdl.org/SDL3/README-linux
• https://wiki.libsdl.org/SDL3/CategoryAPI

Build

Build and run:

git clone https://github.com/DrShahinstein/sockfish.git
cd sockfish/
bash build.sh
bash run.sh

Dependencies below...

Linux

pacman

sudo pacman -S sdl3 sdl3_ttf sdl3_image

dnf

sudo dnf install SDL3 SDL3_image SDL3_ttf

apt

In apt packages, there is no official sdl3, sdl3_image and sdl3_tff packages released yet.

First, see https://wiki.libsdl.org/SDL3/README-linux.

Then,

mkdir -p ~/sdl3_build
cd ~/sdl3_build

git clone https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL.git SDL3
git clone https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL_image.git SDL3_image
git clone https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL_ttf.git SDL3_ttf

cd SDL3
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ..
make
sudo make install

cd ../../SDL3_image
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ..
make
sudo make install

cd ../../SDL3_ttf
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ..
make
sudo make install

sudo ldconfig

To verify:

pkg-config --modversion sdl3        # 3.3.0 (my version)
pkg-config --modversion sdl3-image  # 3.3.0 (my version)
pkg-config --modversion sdl3-ttf    # 3.3.0 (my version)

Macos

brew install sdl3 sdl3_image sdl3_ttf meson gcc

Windows (MSYS2)

The file system in Windows is case-insensitive, which means files like q.png and Q.png are treated as the same file.

So, you would first need to fix this jerky Windows issue. Create an empty folder "Sockfish" by yourself and make it case-sensitive:

# supervisor windows termnial
fsutil.exe file setCaseSensitiveInfo C:\YourPath\Sockfish enable

You will clone the repo into that directory. Keep going with msys2 mingw terminal.

cd Sockfish

pacman -S                   \
git                         \
mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc        \
mingw-w64-x86_64-sdl3       \
mingw-w64-x86_64-sdl3-image \
mingw-w64-x86_64-sdl3-ttf   \
mingw-w64-x86_64-meson      \
mingw-w64-x86_64-python     \
mingw-w64-x86_64-ninja      \

git clone https://github.com/DrShahinstein/sockfish.git
cd sockfish
bash build.sh
bash run.sh