drui - Declarative Reactive UI in C++

I'm mainly a C++ programmer, and I'm certainly not a UI specialist. But, having dabbled with Flutter and having seen some recent news on React, I thought I'd try my hand at writing a declarative reactive gui in C++.

Build system

I code on Windows and use premake5 to configure Visual Studio solutions. In the build directory you'll find the following batch files:

• config.bat Use this to create drui.soln.
• clean.bat Use this to clean the solution.
• b.bat Use this to build the solution. (Be sure you run this from a Developer Command Prompt.)
• r.bat Use this to run the built solution.

Dependencies

You'll see from build/premake5.lua that I link against some external libraries, found on my system outside the solution under a folder lib. These are the x64 SDL libraries SDL2 SDL2_image SDL2_ttf and SDL2_gfx. This is how these external dependencies are laid out under my lib folder:

bin/SDL2.dll
bin/SDL2_image.dll
bin/SDL2_ttf.dll

link/SDL2/SDL2.lib
link/SDL2/SDL2_image.lib
link/SDL2/SDL2_ttf.lib
link/SDL2/SDL2_gfx.lib

include/SDL2/SDL*.h

Note:

• the lib/bin folder is in my PATH environment variable.
• the entry SDL*.h denotes all the header files provided by the above-mentioned SDL2 libraries. (Yes, I put them all in one folder.)

License

This repo uses the MIT license. Note that SDL_FontCache uses the MIT license, and the external SDL2 libraries use the zlib license.