codeholic wrote:Saka wrote:How do I compile dr? Do I do it with Cygwin? How do I compile it?
Just in case you want your questions to be answered, please try to follow
this guide occasionally.
Good guide. That would help me a lot when I have to ask questions on places like SO later on.
I agree that the forums tend to be ignorant on vague questions, but I don't think we "should" be ignorant. Note: not that you said that, just pointing out my subtle perspective. I have seen members in ConwayLife kindly answering questions and I think it's a good thing.
Along these lines, although I see that most experienced Life Enthusiasts have wide and deep experience in programming, like Codeholic(JAPH?), both Chrises, simsim, dvgrn, Alexey, calcyman and many others, I think the attitude on code questions is not totally equivalent to those of a Hacker community. Partly because most users are not experienced programmers.
A place where this SHOULD BE a rule, IMHO, would be the bugs and errors forum.
Thinking about it, I think this can be applied to Life questions as well. I don't think it's a must to search previous links first before asking a new discovery but I'm pretty sure it's Greatly Greatly Greatly recommended. Kind responses, again, are a good thing in my opinion, it's just hard. Personally it's never easy to reply courteously to every instance of a new "methuselah" or a new still life discovery.
Saka wrote:How do I compile dr? Do I do it with Cygwin? How do I compile it?
If I have enough time to write all this I must have enough time to respond to your question. Yes, pretty much every Life Searching Program written in C is compiled with a compiler, Cygwin being one of them. Go to the source directory and run:
Code: Select all
gcc -O3 dr.c -o your_binary_name #g++ instead of gcc for a c++ file
And you're done. What the flags mean would be a good thing to search on Google.
Using dr is pretty hard itself. The manual has all the information, so please read that before asking questions here.
You may have to compile multiple sources at once in compiling other projects. In that case, read the README file (analagous to the RTFM in the guide) to find which sources to compile, and if there isn't any manual then ask here.