Clicker Game

Clicker Game is a standalone Windows desktop game built with Go and GIU.

Requirements

Install these tools before building:

• MSYS2
• Go and GCC from the MSYS2 MINGW64 environment
• go-winres for embedding the Windows icon and version metadata

Open MSYS2 MINGW64 and install the required packages:

pacman -S --needed git mingw-w64-x86_64-go mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc mingw-w64-x86_64-SDL2

Install go-winres:

export GOROOT=/mingw64/lib/go
export GOPATH=/mingw64

go install github.com/tc-hib/go-winres@latest

Run From Source

From MSYS2 MINGW64, open the repository folder and run:

export GOROOT=/mingw64/lib/go
export GOPATH=/mingw64

CGO_ENABLED=1 go run -tags static .

Build The Windows EXE

From MSYS2 MINGW64, open the repository folder and run:

export GOROOT=/mingw64/lib/go
export GOPATH=/mingw64

go-winres make

CGO_ENABLED=1 GOOS=windows GOARCH=amd64 go build -v -tags static \
  -ldflags "-s -w -H=windowsgui -extldflags=-static" \
  -o "ClickerGame.exe" .

The built application will be created as:

ClickerGame.exe

Version Updates

Before creating a release, update both places:

• appVersion in main.go
• FileVersion and ProductVersion in winres/winres.json

Then rebuild ClickerGame.exe and upload it manually to your GitHub Releases page.

Scores

Scores are stored in the current Windows user's config directory:

%AppData%\Clicker Game\scores.json

Set CLICKER_DATA_DIR to store scores.json somewhere else.

Windows Resources

Windows icon and metadata files live in:

winres/

Run go-winres make again after changing winres/winres.json or replacing the icon.