Premake - Find FBX SDK

A premake add-on module helps to find the most suitable fbx sdk location to use.

Tested Platforms

• Windows

Currently, you can reference CI status in project CatDogEngine/AssetPipeline.

Motivation

Autodesk FBX is an industry standard 3D model file format but FBX SDK is under a commericial license. Maybe not friendly to integrate sdk to your project directly.

Parse FBX ASCII file is also a solution to avoid sdk integration, such as Godot FBX importer and nem0/OpenFBX. But it costs much time and efforts.

How to use

• Put this module under Premake Search Paths

• Integrate it in your premake script

  find_fbxsdk = require("premake-findfbx")

• In module scope

  -- [Optional] config module options
  find_fbxsdk.dump_information = true
  
  -- Check if module can find a valid sdk locatiion
  local sdkLocation = find_fbxsdk.get_sdk_location()
  local isValid = sdkLocation ~= nil and os.isdir(sdkLocation)

  Note that if you don't install fbxsdk in default location such as "C:\Program Files\Autodesk\FBX\FBX SDK\xxxx.x.x" in Windows. You have to use custom_sdk_directory option.

  find_fbxsdk.custom_sdk_directory = "D:/fbx"

• In project scope

  -- Default options
  find_fbxsdk.project_config()
  
  -- With options
  -- find_fbxsdk.config_project({ static_runtime = false })

Then it will generate includedirs, libdirs, links, postbuildcommands which copy fbxsdk shared libs to your project build target's output directory.

Module Options

• custom_sdk_directory
  • type : string
    • A valid abosulte directory path
  • default : nil
    • Search this path at first if not nil. Fallback to search system installed directories.
• dump_information
  • type : boolean
  • default : true
    • true : Dump useful information such as include directories, link library paths for debug purpose.
    • false : No Dump

Project Options

• copy_shared_libs
  • type : boolean
  • default : true
    • true : Copy shared libararies to your project build target's output directory.
    • false : No Copy
• static_runtime
  • type : boolean
  • default : true
    • true : /MT
    • false : /MD