arfminesweeper

This project attempts to answer the first question, the universal question:

How many ways are there to build an application?

The answer is: yes*.

I happen to think that the classic game Minesweeper is a good benchmark for the majority of... things.

So I bring you: Minesweeper, but in every way I could think of.

*: See below

Build on Debian GNU/Linux

Global dependencies: cmake build-essential

Dependencies for main frontends:

curses:     libncurses-dev
drmfb:      libdrm-dev
fltk:       libfltk1.4-dev
gl11:       libgl-dev freeglut3-dev
gl33:       libgl-dev libglfw3-dev
glx:        libgl-dev libx11-dev
gtk3:       libgtk-3-dev
java:       openjdk-17-jdk-headless
motif:      libmotif-dev
qt5:        qtbase5-dev qttools5-dev qttools5-dev-tools
sdl1:       libsdl1.2-dev libsdl-image1.2-dev libsdl-ttf2.0-dev
sdl2:       libsdl2-dev libsdl2-image-dev libsdl2-ttf-dev
sdl3:       libsdl3-dev libsdl3-image-dev libsdl3-ttf-dev
vulkan:     libvulkan-dev
wayland:    libwayland-dev
wxwidgets:  libwxgtk3.2-dev
xaw:        libxaw7-dev
xcb:        libxcb1-dev libxcb-icccm4-dev
xforms:     libforms-dev
xlib:       libx11-dev

Dependencies for kernel module: linux-headers-amd64

Dependencies for BIOS kernel: nasm

Dependencies for UEFI application: gnu-efi binutils-mingw-w64 gcc-mingw-w64 xorriso

Build

mkdir build && cd build
cmake ..
make

Use -DNO_MODULE=TRUE, -DNO_KERNEL=TRUE or -DNO_EFIAPP=TRUE to disable building the linux kernel module target, kernel target or EFI app target

Use -DMODULE_ALL=TRUE to build all modules, -DMODULE_<frontend> to build specific modules

Use -DNO_STATIC to disable all static frontends, -DSTATIC_<frontend> to build specific static frontends

TODO frontends

MAIN TARGET

Toolkit/Library/Thing	NAME	STATE	Linux	BSD	Mac	Win
console	console	DONE	X	X	X	X
vt100 escapes	vt100	DONE	X	X	X	X
ANSI color escapes	ansi	DONE	X	X	X	X
curses/ncurses	curses	DONE	X	X	X	X
fbdev	fbdev	DONE	X
X11 Xlib	xlib	DONE	X	X	X	X
X11 XCB	xcb	DONE	X	X	X	X
Wayland	wayland	DONE	X	X
XForms	xforms	DONE	X	X
FLTK	fltk	WIP	X	X	X	X
Motif (Xm/Xt)	motif	WIP	X	X
XView (OpenLook/Xt)			X	X
Athena (Xaw/Xt)	xaw	WIP	X	X
Xaw3d			X	X
X Toolkit (Xt)			X	X
Tcl/Tk			X	X		X
raylib			X	X	X	X
SDL3	sdl3	DONE	X	X	X	X
SDL2	sdl2	DONE	X	X	X	X
SDL1.2	sdl1	DONE	X	X	X	X
DRI DRM fb	drmfb	WIP	X
GLIDE (with Voodoo)			X	X		X
OpenGL GLX	glx		X	X
OpenGL 2.2 FFP/FreeGLUT	gl11	DONE	X	X	X	X
OpenGL 3.3/GLFW/GLAD 2D	gl33	WIP	X	X	X	X
OpenGL 3.3/GLFW/GLAD 3D	gl3d	WIP	X	X	X	X
Vulkan/GLFW	vulkan	WIP	X	X	X	X
ImGui			X	X	X	X
Gtk2			X	X	X	X
Gtk3	gtk3	DONE	X	X	X	X
Gtk4 + libadwaita			X	X	X	X
Qt4			X	X	X	X
Qt5	qt5	DONE	X	X	X	X
Qt6			X	X	X	X
wxWidgets	wxwidgets	WIP	X	X	X	X
WinAPI	win32	WIP				X
Win32 GDI	gdi	WIP				X
Direct2D	d2d	WIP				X
.NET WinForms						X
.NET WPF						X
Win UWP						X
WinUI 3						X
.NET MAUI						X
Java JNI AWT	awt	DONE	X	X	X	X
Java JNI Swing	swing	DONE	X	X	X	X
Webapp	httpd	DONE	X	X	X	X
Metal					X
Objective-C ?					X
Swift ?					X

• DONE 18/48 (37%)
• WIP 10/48 (20%)
• unattempted 19/48 (39%)

LINUX MODULE TARGET

Exposes a /dev/arfminesweeper character device that you can cat, and echo the same commands as console into

DONE

ANDROID TARGET

Using Android NDK

KERNEL TARGET

Mode type	STATE	BIOS	UEFI
VGA text mode console	DONE	X	X
VGA text mode	DONE	X	X
VGA text w/graphic char	DONE	X	X
VGA graphic mode	WIP	X	X
VESA graphic mode	UEFI DONE	X	X

UEFI APPLICATION TARGET

UEFI console

WIP

HARDWARE TARGET

The only one that doesnt compile against game.c

• SystemVerilog
• VHDL

I apologize.

Notes:

gl33 (OpenGL 3.3 GLSL 330 core)

Does not work on Intel iGPUs apparently, for some god unknown reason, maybe the bit shit?

Mutually exclusive with raylib on static builds

Win32

Currently I think it only builds correctly under MSVC