Tetris in ncurses and C++

Running the code

Tested Platforms

These platforms are tested to be working.

1. Mac OS X
2. Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)
3. Linux
4. FreeBSD
5. Android (Termux)
6. iOS 13 (Jailbroken)

Compiling from source

To compile the code, simply run the following in your shell.

./configure.sh
make

After compiling, the executable is in the bin folder. To run the game, type

./bin/tetris

Tip

If the folder path of your current working directory contains spaces, the compilation may fail. To solve this problem, try moving the repository to a folder with its path without spaces. For example, ~/.

Compile options

• Clean project generated binaries. (Excluding all downloaded resources).

  make clean

• Clean all existing binaries, configuration, libraries and SDKs. (Including all downloaded resources).

  make clean_all

• Compile only ncurses (Not appliable for Jailbroken iOS)

  make ncurses

Tip

If you run into a compilation problem. Always run make clean and try recompiling to see if it helps.

Folder structure

Folder	Content
bin	The actual compiled executable file for tetris game. (tetris)
obj	Object files emitted by compiler
src	C++ source code for this project
include/tetris	Header files for this project
local	Compiled ncurses library
ncurses	ncurses sources fetched on github

References

This code has referred and/or directly quoted code from the following sources

• Ncurses library
• https://youtu.be/8OK8_tHeCIA
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20326356/how-to-remove-all-the-occurrences-of-a-char-in-c-string
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16909164/function-pointer-multiple-definition
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23970721/how-to-shift-2d-array-elements-down-in-c
• https://www.tutorialspoint.com/cplusplus/cpp_date_time.htm
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2342162/stdstring-formatting-like-sprintf
• https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/csv-file-management-using-c/

Development tools used

Name	Purpose	Link
Typora	Markdown editor	https://typora.io
Visual Studio Code	Code Editor with handy features and comfortable user interface	https://code.visualstudio.com

Third Party libraries used

• ncurses