Yet Another Game of Life

What is it?

This is just an implementation of good old Conway's Game of Life in C++ for WebAssembly and nothing else.

How to build

0. Install clang compiler, cmake and make to your system
1. Install Emscripten framework to your system and make shure you have emcmake and em++ commands working
2. Change your directory to yal/build
3. Configure project with emcmake cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
4. Build project with make -j4
5. After succesful build there will be files yal.wasm (contains WebAssembly application code), yal.js (contains application runtime in JS) and yal.html (contains end-user web page to interact with) in yal/build/bin

How to run

Unfortunately, protection from cross origin resource sharing (CORS) most likely will not allow you to run your the newely built Web Assembly application locally by just opening yal.html file in web browser. Therefore, you will need to install any http web server (for example Apache) on your system. For example, after installing Apache in Fedora, you need to copy the files from the yal/build/bin directory to /var/www/html and start the web server with the systemctl start httpd command. Than navigate to http://localhost/yal.html and enjoy tha game. Check your OS distribution manuals to learn more.

Also you can just host this application on any web server you may whant to - it is fully client-side, no special support from server is required.

About

(c) 2023 - Mikhail A. Motylenok

This is free software, made just for fun.

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