Installation for Life

Getting the Source

First you must have subversion installed, if you don't you can get it  subversion's homepage

To get the source in a terminal type:

svn co http://svn.lolrus.org/life/trunk life

Building the Source

You now have to go into the working directory, run configure, and run make

cd life
./configure
make

If you don't have glut dependencies you may do this instead:

cd life
./configure --disable-opengl
make lifebench
make lifeconsole

Compatability

The configure script has worked in the following environments for me

• Mac OS X 10.4.10 with both ICC 9.1 and GCC 4.1.1
• Mac OS X 10.5 (leopard) with both ICC 10 and GCC 4.0.1
• Gentoo x86_64 bit with GCC 4.1.1

There is a loop that is optimized with OpenMP in the lifeglut executable. To exploit this, you will either need Intel(R) C Compiler or gcc 4.2+.

Unfortunately, as of now this will NOT build with gcc 4.2. There's a  bug I found in GCC 4.2's implementation of the shift intrinsics where the last argument defined as count (not imm) won't take a variable and yells at you

helpers.h:56: error: shift must be an immediate