Building Lumberyard projects

Building your Amazon Lumberyard game is the most important part of the development process - it's how you debug, test, and distribute. In this section of the guide, you'll learn how to configure your Lumberyard builds, get started with your first build, see which build types are available and what they offer, and how to use the Waf build system.

For instructions on bundling assets and distributing them with a release build, see Build and bundle assets for release in Lumberyard.

Your First Lumberyard Build

One of the first things you'll want to do with Lumberyard is configure the build system and see your configured game project running as a stand-alone executable or Visual Studio Solution.

Note

You will need a copy of Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 to build your Lumberyard game if you selected any of the following options in Lumberyard Setup Assistant:

• Compile the game code

• Compile the engine and asset pipeline

• Compile the Lumberyard Editor and tools

Configure and build a Lumberyard game

1. Open a command line window and navigate to the Lumberyard_version\dev directory.

2. Configure the build system:

   lmbr_waf configure

3. Build your game project in profiling mode:

   lmbr_waf build_win_x64_vs2017_profile -p game

   Note

   If you selected Compile the engine and asset pipeline when setting up Lumberyard, you should also build the engine and rebuild it whenever you make a code change:

   lmbr_waf build_win_x64_vs2017_profile -p game_and_engine

   Depending on your hardware, the build may take a while to complete.

To learn the general steps for creating a release build in Lumberyard, see Build and bundle assets for release in Lumberyard. For more information about creating release builds for Android and iOS, see Create Android and iOS projects in Lumberyard.

Topics

Topic	Description
Game Build Types in Amazon Lumberyard	Learn about the available types of Amazon Lumberyard builds and when to use them during development.
Using the Waf Build System	Learn about the Waf build system, which is used by Lumberyard to configure and build game code.
Build and bundle assets for release in Lumberyard	Run through a tutorial and learn how to use the Asset Bundler, along with Waf, to create release builds.
Adding Custom Game Icons	Add a custom icon to display in your game's window as part of a release.