https://github.com/akhand-pratap-tiwari/conway-game-of-life-using-cpp-and-sfml

An implementation of Conway's game of life using C++ and SFML.
https://github.com/akhand-pratap-tiwari/conway-game-of-life-using-cpp-and-sfml

conways-game-of-life cpp custom-headers sfml

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An implementation of Conway's game of life using C++ and SFML.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/akhand-pratap-tiwari/conway-game-of-life-using-cpp-and-sfml
• Owner: Akhand-Pratap-Tiwari
• Created: 2024-10-05T09:34:16.000Z (3 months ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-10-24T14:03:33.000Z (2 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-25T16:25:48.054Z (2 months ago)
• Topics: conways-game-of-life, cpp, custom-headers, sfml
• Language: C++
• Homepage:
• Size: 66.6 MB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md

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## About the project

This project displays Conway's game of life using C++ and SFML.

![Screenshot 2024-10-24 193052](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/3e803b63-6ef2-468a-a93b-f462491c3982)

![Screenshot 2024-10-24 193106](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/b883e1e7-edf6-4740-bee0-7ace2fa3841e)

## Directory and Files:

- `.vscode` contains my vs code configuration. You might want to use your own.

- `release` contains all the dlls and main.exe required to run the program on a windows machine.

  - Under this folder we have `main.exe`. Double click on this and run the game.

  - All other are required dll files necessary to run the game and must be present in the same folder.

- `src` folder contains the active working directory.

  - `custom_headers` contain the custom header files made for the project.

  - `exec` contains the most recent executable along with dll and ilk and other stuff generated by the compiler.

  - `obj` contains the intermediate object files that are generated by the compiler.

  - `main.cpp` contains the main run code.

  - `onion.py` is a small python script I wrote to automate my repetitive tasks. Following are the commands which can be run from cmd from the project root dir.

    - `python onion.py make debug` : Compiles the code and puts the executable into `exec` and object files into `obj` folder

    - `python onion.py make release` : Copies the recently compiled executable from exec into release folder. If executable does not exist then run the debug build then copies. 

    - `python onion.py run debug` : Runs the executable in the debug folder.

    - `python onion.py run release` : Runs the executable in the release folder.

    - `python onion.py pack debug` : Packs the src folder into a zip. 

    - `python onion.py pack release` : Packs the release folder into a zip. 

  - `release_pack.zip` is zipped version of release folder.

  - `src_pack.zip` is zipped version of src folder.

## Setup:

  - Install the SFML library and edit the library path in the `.vscode` folder and in the `onion.py` script also.

  - Install Visual Studio and C/C++ tools along with it.

  - Install the C/C++ extension from Microsoft in VS Code.

  - Run `Developer Command Prompt for the Visual Studio` for the `32-bit architecture`.

  - Change the directory to the project directory.

  - Run `code .` command.

  - Now you are ready to work with the project.

## Run Only:

To simply run the game just donwload the release pack, extract it and run the main.exe