Conway's Game of Life in WebAssembly

Conway's Game of Life in WebAssembly and WebGL.

Environment Setup

Install the Emscripten SDK (emsdk).

source path/to/emsdk/emsdk_env.sh

Build

make cgl

or

emcc -Wall -sMIN_WEBGL_VERSION=2 -sMAX_WEBGL_VERSION=2 main.c cgl.c -o main.js

Run

First, start a HTTP server to serve files in the current working directory:

python3 -m http.server

Then, open http://0.0.0.0:8000/ in your browser.

Test

Conway's Game of Life can also run in the terminal for testing purposes:

make test

./test

References

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/WebAssembly/C_to_Wasm
• https://emscripten.org/docs/getting_started/Tutorial.html
• https://emscripten.org/docs/api_reference/emscripten.h.html
• https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/dynamically-allocate-2d-array-c/
• https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/numeric/random/srand
• https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/numeric/random/rand
• https://emscripten.org/docs/porting/multimedia_and_graphics/OpenGL-support.html
• https://emscripten.org/docs/porting/multimedia_and_graphics/EGL-Support-in-Emscripten.html
• https://github.com/emscripten-core/emscripten/blob/main/test/third_party/glbook/Common/esUtil.c
• https://github.com/emscripten-core/emscripten/blob/main/test/minimal_webgl
• https://doublejump.github.io/webgl-with-webassembly/index.html