Mandelbrot Generator

This is a mandelbrot generator written in c using libpng with zlib to create png images.

Compiling

This program has libpng and zlib as dependencies. Here is a table of dependency names on different systems: Remember that pkg-config, make and a c99 compatible compiler (gcc, tcc...) are required to compile.

Distro	libpng	zlib
Ubuntu 20.04	libpng-dev	zlib1g-dev
Void Linux	libpng-devel	zlib-devel
Fedora	libpng-devel	zlib-devel

After installing all dependencies, you just run make.

Installing and uninstalling

Remember to have the right permissions, by using sudo or running as root. Install: make install Uninstall: make uninstall

By default it installs the binary to /usr/local/bin, you can change this under Configuration.

Usage

To get the usage run the program without any parameters. To get the version and license run the program with -v.

Configuration

`config.mk` options (makefile variables):

Name	Default value	Description
VERBOSE	1	This changes the verboseness of the program.
VERSION		This changes the version printed when running the program. Any string is acceptable.
PKG_CONFIG	pkg-config	This changes the binary that is used for pkg-config.
PREFIX	/usr/local	This changes where the binary is installed to. ( /usr/local/bin )
USE_PTHREAD	depends on arch	This forces the compiler to use or not use pthreads.

Compiler options (enviroment variables):

Name	Default value	Description
CC	Depends on make	You can set this to force a specific compiler.
CPPFLAGS	Empty	C preprocessor flags
CFLAGS	Depends on make	C compiler flags
LDFLAGS	Empty	Linker flags