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OUR EXPERT
David Bolton has been programming since before the war. Which war? Don’t ask. He wrote a 1,000-player RPG game called Quest in 1989 that is still running today.
You can find many mazegeneration programs in C on the web. Many of those output the mazes as texts. In this example, we’re going to set up Visual Studio Code (aka VS Code) and write a Cprogram that uses the SDL2 library to draw the maze and then solve it.
For this tutorial, the program was developed on a Raspberry Pi 4B, but a 3B would work equally as well. We’ll install this software:
•SDL2 library
•Visual Studio Code and extension
• The Clang compiler and linker
The SDL2 (Simple Direct Media) library isn’t installed by default on a Pi. To compile against SDL2, we need the development versions, which include header files for C and libraries to link against. To see what’s available, run this command in a terminal:
Of the six libraries shown, we only need libsdl2-dev. Before you
