Sea-Snake is a command-line implementation of the classic game "snake" written in C++ using the ncurses library, the name is a play on the language name as it was created as approachable project for me to start to learn C++.

It should compile with no issue on linux and mac assuming you have g++, cmake and ncurses installed, releases marked with "Cygwin Compatible" i was able to compile on windows using Cygwin, but since it's dependent on cygwin1.dll i do not (yet) provide windows executables in the releases, alternatively, on windows you can build and run it in WSL2.

Ensure you have g++, cmake, and ncurses installed:

sudo apt-get install g++ cmake libncurses-dev # Ubuntu
apk add make cmake g++ ncurses-dev            # Alpine (run as root or sudo)

if you use a different linux distro, your package manager probably has the same packages under the same or similar names, if not, you can find, build, and install them yourself.

if you have the Xcode command line utils installed there's a decent chance you already have the necessary tools and libraries, otherwise you can install them by hand, or with a 3rd party package manager such as Homebrew:

brew install g++ cmake ncurses

# from .../sea-snake
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ..
make

if your ncurses doesn't support unicode, you can compile without unicode using by adding the NO_UNICODE option to your cmake, like so:

cmake -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -D NO_UNICODE=ON ..

once it has compiled you can run it with:

./sea-snake

adding the -u and/or -c will use unicode and/or color respectively, you can also do -h for a full list of options.

(the -u option will not be available if you compiled without unicode)

This project uses TCLAP (licensed under MIT) for command line parsing.

I have no association with Cygwin, Microsoft (WSL2), Homebrew, TCLAP, or their respective maintainers.