Crossword game artificial intelligence and analysis tool.

See LICENSE in this directory.

Quackle runs automated GitHub CI builds on Qt 5.12 and 5.15, so it should work with any Qt version in that range. See README.MacOS and README.Windows for platform-specific instructions. Generally:

Clone the repo or download the tarball and untar. Use cmake to build quacker, which will automatically build quackle and quackleio:

cd quacker
mkdir build && cd build
cmake ..
cmake --build .

The binary will build as 'Quackle'.

If you're building with Qt provided by cmake, then invoke cmake as...

cmake -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH="<path_to_vcpkg>/installed/<arch>" ..

The Quackle cmake build system uses Qt5 by default. But you can specify Qt6 by invoking...

cmake -DQT_VERSION=6 ..

• quackle/ - libquackle sources. libquackle is the engine, and can be linked to any convenient interface. It does not use Qt.
• quackle/quackleio/ - I/O library for Quackle. Implements stuff for accessing dictionaries, serializing GCG files, etc. Also, command-line option handling. This does have some modest dependencies on Qt.
• quackle/quacker/ - code for full Quackle UI. Written in Qt, and requires libquackleio and libquackle.
• quackle/makeminidawg/ - standalone console program for building Quackle dictionaries.
• quackle/makegaddag/ - standalone console program for building gaddag files.
• quackle/data/ - lexicons, strategy files, and alphabet resources for Quackle. In this directory is libquackle. Run qmake and then run make in this directory. Then cd to quackle/quackleio/, run qmake, and then run make.

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