Chip-8 emultor using raylib in C

This is a simple Chip-8 emulator written in C using the raylib library for graphics and input handling. It is designed to be cross-platform and easy to build on Windows, Linux, and MacOS.

Windows Users

There are two compiler toolchains available for windows, MinGW-W64 (a free compiler using GCC), and Microsoft Visual Studio

Using MinGW-W64

• Double click the build-MinGW-W64.bat file
• CD into the folder in your terminal
  • if you are usiing the W64devkit and have not added it to your system path environment variable, you must use the W64devkit.exe terminal, not CMD.exe
  • If you want to use cmd.exe or any other terminal, please make sure that gcc/mingw-W64 is in your path environment variable.
• run make
• You are good to go

Note on MinGW-64 versions

Make sure you have a modern version of MinGW-W64 (not mingw). The best place to get it is from the W64devkit from https://github.com/skeeto/w64devkit/releases or the version installed with the raylib installer

If you have installed raylib from the installer

Make sure you have added the path

C:\raylib\w64devkit\bin

To your path environment variable so that the compiler that came with raylib can be found.

DO NOT INSTALL ANOTHER MinGW-W64 from another source such as msys2, you don't need it.

Microsoft Visual Studio

• Run build-VisualStudio2022.bat
• double click the .sln file that is generated
• develop your game
• you are good to go

Linux Users

• CD into the build folder
• run ./premake5 gmake
• CD back to the root
• run make
• you are good to go

MacOS Users

• CD into the build folder
• run ./premake5.osx gmake
• CD back to the root
• run make
• you are good to go

Output files

The built code will be in the bin dir