Build bevy game

[wotori]

Could anybody point me how to build game for production under any os?
I am trying under Ubuntu currently with cargo build release and when I run ./target/release/bevy-app everything seems fine but the app lost assets dir that is in the root project`s folder. How to deal with It?

WARN bevy_asset::asset_server: encountered an error while reading an asset: path not found: /home/wotori/git/wotori/ekza/ekza-bevy-engine/target/release/assets/models/model.gltf

And In the future there should be possibility to build for ios and android right? How soon?

[bjorn3]

The assets dir needs to be either next to the executable or the CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR env var needs to be set to the directory containing the assets dir. cargo run automatically sets this env var to the directory containing Cargo.toml for you, but if you manually execute the game you need to set it yourself.

ios and android are in principle supported I believe, but there are still some kinks around suspending apps. I believe there is a PR for fixing this.

[wotori]

Yeah, you right. After moving asset folder to executable`s root folder everything started work as expected. But Is It possible to compile the project with single executable file that doesn't require any additional files?

[wotori]

cargo build release - Is the only option for building project for production?
So I can compress It and share with end-users? Or Is there a better pipeline?

[bjorn3]

There are third party plugins like https://crates.io/crates/bevy-embasset that allow embedding assets into the main executable.

[mockersf]

You can check https://bevyengine.org/assets/#asset-loading for options, like embedding your assets, loading them from the web, ...