This project was given as an assignment in the school I’m in. What made this project so hard to finish was the language used to develop it. We had to use C, which had its difficulties, the libraries we had to use made difficult.
But overall it was a good and entertaining project to build.
For full code documentation feel free to check the them here: https://oussama1598.github.io/tic_tac_toe/html/
Installing gtk was one of the hardset processes in this project. Was a long process to accomplish.
Well, that’s why i don’t use windows it takes a lot to accomplish so little but i was able to get it to work. Following these steps, will get you to include gtk in your project as easy as using the include statement (using magic).
- Download and install msys2 from https://www.msys2.org/ there's an installation guide there
- Note that you have to install the right binary for your machine's architucture either 64bit or 32bit
- Open the start menu and open the msys2 terminal (called MSYS2 MinGW 64-bit for 64bit systems and MSYS2 MinGW 32-bit for 32bit systems)
- Install pkg-config by running this command in the opened terminal
- pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-pkg-config (for 64 bit systems)
- pacman -S mingw-w64-i686-pkg-config (for 32bit systems)
- In the same terminal after the previous command has finished run the following command to install gtk
- pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-gtk3 (for 64 bit systems)
- pacman -S mingw-w64-i686-gtk3 (for 32bit systems)
- To install gcc and other dev tools you have to run this command again whitin the same terminal
- pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain base-devel (for 64 bit systems)
- pacman -S mingw-w64-i686-toolchain base-devel (for 32 bit systems)
- Install code-blocks it shouldn't be that hard from here http://www.codeblocks.org/downloads/26
- Add the msys2 to your system path following this tutorial https://docs.alfresco.com/4.2/tasks/fot-addpath.html but instead of the C:\jdk use the msys2 path which is:
- C:\msys64\mingw64\bin (for 64 bit systems)
- C:\msys32\mingw32\bin (for 32 bit systems)
- To continue the installation scroll down to how to configure code blocks with gtk
I just love Linux, that’s what I’ll say.
- All you have to do is to open the terminal and run this command sudo apt install libgtk-3-dev
- To continue the installation scroll down to how to configure code blocks with gtk
- Create a new project
- Go to Project > Build options
- Within the Compiler settings tab switch to the Other compiler options sub-tab and add `pkg-config gtk+-3.0 --cflags` pay attention to the backticks this symbol ` it has to be copied as well with the command
- Within the Linker settings tab add `pkg-config gtk+-3.0 --libs` to Other Linker options pay attention to the backticks this symbol ` it has to be copied as well with the command
- All of the following commands are for windows users
- Go to Settings > Compiler ...
- Within the Toolchain executables
- Change the compiler's installation to
- C:\msys64\mingw64\bin (for 64 bit systems)
- C:\msys32\mingw32\bin (for 32 bit systems)
- Change The C compiler to gcc.exe
- Change The C++ compiler to g++.exe
- Change The Linker for dynamic libs to g++.exe
- Change The Make program to make.exe
- Click Ok
- That's it you're good to go feel free to use gtk now
- Open the command line and cd to the project's directory
- Run the following commands:
- mkdir build
- cd build
- cmake -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER="gcc.exe" -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER="g++.exe" -G "CodeBlocks - MinGW Makefiles" ..
- Those last steps will generate a codeblocks project
- Open tic_tac_toe.cbp using CodeBlocks
- Go to Project > Properties > Build targets
- And change Type to GUI application
- Click OK
- Build the project
- Now you can run the application found in build directory named tic_tac_toe.exe
- Open the command line and cd to the project's directory
- Run the following commands:
- mkdir build
- cd build
- cmake ..
- make
- Run the application from within the terminal by running the command ./tic_tac_toe