Game of Life

This is a conway's game of life simulation with a gui that's made with SWT. In the game you can set the speed of the game reset it and stop/play the simulation.

Running a jar from the releases:

To run a precompiled jar download the jar for your platform and just run the jar with Java 11 or higher.

java -jar game_of_life-1.0_linux_x86_64.jar

Building and starting the project:

If you want to build and start your project you have to look that you use the correct library for SWT in the pom.xml file. For building just use the mvn install command

Building a standalone jar

For compiling a standalone jar use the following command:

mvn clean compile assembly:single

Building a standalone jar for a different target os

For compiling a standalone jar for a different os than the one you are compiling you have to change the profile so that maven uses the correct dependencies. Of course the profile with the correct dependencies has to exist in the pom.xml file. You can read more about maven profiles here.

mvn clean compile assembly:single -P windows_x86_64,-linux_x86_64