Advent of Code C++ Skeleton

This is a fun AoC skeleton for C++, containing a makefile with arguments to compile or debug the current day or a specific day's file. It also prints a snowman with randomly generated snow to stdout when compiling. ☃️

Using the Skeleton

Make a src, res and build folder. Put your source files in the src directory with the name DayX.cpp where X is the 2 digit number for the day e.g. Day02.cpp. Put any resources (e.g. text files) in the res directory. Your code will be compiled to the build directory.

To compile and run your code use make with one of the following arguments:

• all - Compile all days
• today - Compile and run the current day
• specific - Compiles and runs the day specified by the AOCDAY environment variable (use export AOCDAY=X to set this where X is the 2 digit day code)
• bah-humbug - Debug the current day using gdb with the -O0 flag
• bah-humbug-specific - Debug the day specified by the AOCDAY environment variable in gdb (use export AOCDAY=X to set this where X is the 2 digit day code)
• clean - remove everything in the build directory