Library/OGRE/Tutorial 1: Minimal OGRE Example

I like object-oriented frameworks – but not always when I’m learning a new SDK and just want the minimal example. I find introductory tutorials that use a framework of their own often inefficient and ineffective: I don’t want anything happening behind the scenes between the SDK and my code when I’m learning the SDK. Unfortunately for me, this is how the Beginner Tutorials are set up on the OGRE wiki.

After a bit of Googling, I pieced together a minimal OGRE example to get a render window displayed. Note: in addition to the code and the OGRE binaries, the “plugins_d.cfg” from the SDK should be copied to the application directory and renamed “plugins.cfg”.