Conway's Game of Life

Life and death are now fighting in this pretty game created by the British mathematician John Horton Conway in 1970. He wanted to invent a game with the simplest rules possible to simulate diversity of different forms, such as evolution may create. The rules are really simple: https://playgameoflife.com/info You just need to dye some cells white by mouse clicking and watch, watch while the live is evolving, creating either cute or owful forms.

Build

To build the project, you need:

1. download and unpack the source code package from this site
2. create a "build" folder in the project directory
3. open cmd.exe in this folder, or open it anywhere and use this command (on Windows):

cd "Path to the build folder" 

4. run next command to create CMake configuration:

cmake ../src 

or you can opt for a C++ compiler like so instead:

cmake ../src -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER="Path to your compiler"

MSVC compiler will work for sure, with MinGW compiler you may need to add the paths to libstdc++-6.dll and libgcc_s_seh-1.dll to your PATH environment variable

5. run this command to build the project and create .exe file:

cmake --build .

6. CMake will write the path to .exe file in the command line, open that folder, or run the next command:

cd "Path to .exe file" 

7. Add sdl2.dll to the folder with .exe file if it hadn't been added automatically, it can be located in these folders, depending on your processor architecture and compiler:

• GNU/SDL2-2.30.2/x86_64-w64-mingw32/bin
• GNU/SDL2-2.30.2/x86_64-w64-mingw32/bin
• MSVC/SDL2-2.30.2/lib/x64
• MSVC/SDL2-2.30.2/lib/x86

Run

After building, run the next command (on Windows):

start console_game_of_life.exe 7 700 500  

where 7 is the speed of the game from 1 to 10, 700 is the window width from 100 and is a multiple of 10, 500 is the window height from 100 and is a multiple of 10 You will see such a window:

You will understand if the game is running by the window title: