[ajdude]

Alire puts "/obj/", "/bin/", "/alire/", and "/config/" into its .gitignore when creating a new project so the platform-specific stuff shouldn't end up on other developer's machines. After your initial "alr init --bin myproj" you can dive into your "myproj.gpr" and do more than what alire supports in its toml file.

[crabbone]

Turns out putting "config" in .gitignore isn't a very good idea. Or, at least, there's a problem with what setting go into "config". In particular, compiler options, end up ignored... I had to undo it in the project I'm working on because I got tired of having to restore these options every time I change something else in dependencies / other project configuration.

[adezxc]

We use SVN in our university lab, so no, that didn't work when I tried it initially. obj and bin was obvious to ignore, but I wasn't so sure about config and alire, might be helpful though

[Avshalom]

which is fine if you're using git. Just like asking me for my github login would be fine, if I used github and expected to ever distribute sdl_helloworld.

[kevlar700]

literally

alr init --bin new_project

cd new_project

alr edit