Why?

See this this blog post.

Building

This project has been built with stack haskell build tool. Instructions to install it are provided in the link above.

Install freeglut3: sudo apt-get install freeglut3-devsudo apt-get install freeglut3-dev.

Clone the repo using: git clone https://github.com/Ivan1931/gol-rules-haskell.git

Install stack GHC and it's dependencies run: stack setup

Build the program and install dependencies to stack environment: stack build

Run a repl with all the modules loaded: stack repl

You can run the program with different automatons (assuming in project working directory):

• Game of life - stack exec sim gol app/blinker.txt
• Wire world - stack exec sim ww app/ww.txt
• Wire world combined with game of life - stack exec sim gowwc app/ww.txt