About the project

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

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