Command-line interface Game of Life.
Run the following command:
gcc -o cligol main.c
Specs of my gcc version:
Using built-in specs.
COLLECT_GCC=gcc
Target: x86_64-linux-gnu
Thread model: posix
gcc version 8.3.0 (Debian 8.3.0-6)
Before compilation, you can configure the four variables defined in headers/config.h
to adjust the behaviour of the program.
BOARD_HEIGHT (int): defines number of rows in the board.BOARD_WIDTH (int): defines number of columns in the board.TOROIDAL (int): set to 1, the board behaves as a toroidal surface. Otherwise the edges of the board represent a limit beyond which nothing exists.FILENAME (string): name of file to use for reading and storing game data.
It has three simple modes of use: file-only, display and control. These modes can be accesed by passing parameters to the executable.
./cligol
The file-only mode iterates through the board and updates it to the next turn,
saving the result in the file data/board.txt, without displaying anything to
the user.
./cligol 1
If you pass one parameter with a value of 1, the display mode updates the board to the next turn and outputs the result to the console before updating the data file.
./cligol 1 1
If you pass two parameters with a value of 1, you activate the Control mode, which lets you iterate through as many rounds as you want before quitting the game and saving the data.