Before compiling, please make sure you have support for C++17 and the corresponding C++STL. In addition, this projects requires support of Boost, a widely used C++ library. It specifically uses Boost Program Options. Refer to the Boost Documentation to install Boost. Please make sure that all C++STL and the Boost library have been included in your C++ include path, otherwise the program won't compile.
The compilation has been mostly taken care of. To compile the code from scratch, run make main or simply run make in the project root directory. The output driver.o executable can be found in the root directory of the project folder.
If for some reason, you are not able to get Boost installed, run make WO_Boost instead, but this version of code will have less sanity checks of the input argument.
To remove the existing executable, run make clean.
Assuming the input test case is a .txt file, with relative path test.txt. Then by using the --filePath optional argument, one can run the test case by the command ./driver.o --filePath test.txt --pSet 1. The --pSet argument indicates which problem the program is directed to solve. 1 indicates solving Fifteens Puzzle with Knight’s Moves. The outputs are saved in test_output.txt as required. You can find example outputs here.
Assuming the input test case is a .txt file, with relative path test.txt. Then by using the --filePath optional argument, one can run the test case by the command ./driver.o --filePath test.txt --pSet 2. The --pSet argument indicates which problem the program is directed to solve. 2 indicates solving Superqueens Puzzle. The outputs are saved in test_output.txt as required. You can find example outputs here.