My First Playdate Tutorial!

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Hey guys :wave:t2:

I finally got the okay to start creating and posting video tutorials for the Playdate!

Here is a link to the first one: https://youtu.be/LiCJF4TfWno

Please let me know what you think!
Also, I'd love to hear any feedback.

Thanks!
-Rhett Thompson

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Hi Rhett, can you tell us why you needed to comment out the Corelibs/graphics line when building for Windows? Was there an error message during compilation?

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Hi james,
Yes there was an error.

Here is a screenshot of it:

Error 1
Error 11908Ɨ991 31.3 KB

And I tried putting the full file path, but that didn't help:

Error 2
Error 21908Ɨ1002 32.8 KB

Any ideas?
Also, I understand that this line is supposed to import the library, but since it built fine without does that mean the library is imported by default?

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can you tell me the following?

  • the path to your SDK folder
  • the contents of build.bat
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Sure thing!

SDK path:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Playdate

build.bat:

@echo off

cd "C:\Program Files (x86)\Playdate"
call ".\bin\pdc.exe" %0\..\HelloWorld %0\..\HelloWorld.pdx

echo Done!
pause

Let me know if there is anything else you need!

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Ok thanks, check out the README in the SDK folder. It says that the compiler (pdc) need to have the SDK path passed in as a parameter.

pdc.exe -sdkpath <path to the SDK> <input folder> <output folder>

Try that out and let me know if it makes a difference. Iā€™m puzzled over why your script compiled without error when the corelibs line is commented out.

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Putting the -sdkpath worked!

But I am curious about the corelibs issue too.
I can actually also compile on Mac without import "CoreLibs/graphics".
Is that going to be an issue? Is there some sort of auto import for the graphics lib?

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the playdate.graphics table exists without importing corelibs/graphics because some of the graphics functions are written in C.

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mine works just fine on PC like this:

import "CoreLibs/graphics"

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Thank you so much for that. I'm going to need it :slight_smile: Still mocking up things in Photoshop at the moment but Panic guys were kind enough to give me access to the SDK recently and I can't wait to get going for real .

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