Connect X

Connect X is a scallable Connect 4 application. You can choose how many players can play, the game board dimensions and how many adjacent discs are needed for a win.

Build the project

Basically, g++ is used for building Connect X. However, other programs (such as make or doxygen are used in a complete build. This section will help you understand the build process for Connect X and guide you through the build steps.

Supported OS

Only Ubuntu is officially supported. The program may work under other OSes, but as of now, no OS other than Ubuntu has been officially used for testing. The following steps assume that you work on a machine running a relatively up-to-date version of Ubuntu.

Prerequesties

The following softwares are needed to perform a complete build:

1. g++
2. make
3. cmake
4. doxygen
5. LaTeX
6. latexmk (available in TeXLive)
7. Google Tests
8. bash
9. python
10. Gtkmm (C++ wrapper for Gtk)

In cxinit, a bash script named setup.sh can be run to install everything that is nedded plus some extra goodies (Ubuntu only).

Building

Once everything is installed copy the init.mk file to the project's root directory. To do so, open a terminal and enter:

cp cxinit/init.mk .

Using your favorite text editor, open the file init.mk and populate the SRC_ROOT and BIN_ROOT variables. The SRC_ROOT variable should hold the path to the root directory of your copy of the Connect X repository. The BIN_ROOT variable should hold the path to the directory that is going to contain all the executables produded by the build. Once this is done, save the file. You should now be able to build the project:

make

Note that you can build any module of the project by feeding make the desired module name. For example, if I only want to build the cxbase library, I can invoke:

make cxbase

and if I only want the documentation for that library, I can invoke:

make cxbasedoc

Refer to the repository's main Makefile to know all the module names.

Help manual

See the help manual.