MINESWEEPER

Minesweeper, except you can set the size of the grid, number of bombs and number of lives to whatever you want!

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Installation

Release builds

• Download the .deb package for x86_64 debian based linux distributions, then run

sudo apt install </path/to/minesweeper_linux_64.deb>`

• Download the .dmg installer package for x86_64 mac

• Download the .exe installer package for x86_64 windows

• via nix on any linux, mac, or wsl

nix run github:BirdeeHub/minesweeper
nix shell github:BirdeeHub/minesweeper
# and
nix repl
:lf github:BirdeeHub/minesweeper
# in order to see the things output by the flake
# for including in your system flake.

• Or on any platform, download java and the .jar and run with

java -jar minesweeper.jar

Build

Install java to path or set JAVA_HOME

• Linux or mac:

git clone https://github.com/BirdeeHub/minesweeper && cd minesweeper && \
./src/jar_it.sh

It will create a .jar at ./lib and a run script at ./bin

If argument 1 is package it will create a .deb package with jpackage at ./dist

if argument 2 is mac, it will instead be a .dmg for mac

You may set $JAROUT $RUNOUT to set location of the jar and run script.

You may set $DISTOUT $INSTALL_DIR to set location of the installer, and the post-install path.

• Windows:

git clone https://github.com/BirdeeHub/minesweeper && cd minesweeper
cd .\src && .\jar_it.bat && cd ..

If argument 1 is package it will create a .exe installer at ./dist

Otherwise it will only create a .jar at ./lib

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This repository is a repackaging of the original repo which I turned into a coding tutorial.

Only read it if you want to see how I was after like, 4 months of learning to code. In other words, don't.

The Jarred branch is kinda cool though. Highly inadvisable, but cool. Its saves its scores within its own jar. Yes even when you force quit.

In that repo I also packaged it in such a way that includes the source in the jar, and a compiler in the windows packaging.

It has a ton of comments and explanations, and has a bug as an exercise and the answer in another branch.

The two branches thus cannot be merged together, and diverged long ago, thus the .git file is very large.

I wanted an actual distributable version that wouldnt take forever to clone and look at.

I also wanted to learn how to use github actions.