Lambda punter

Installation

• Install OCAML 4.04.0 or later and OPAM

• Run opam pin add ocamlgraph https://github.com/simonjf/ocamlgraph.git (this is a version of ocamlgraph patched by Simon Fowler to implement a general version of Dijkstra's algorithm)

• Run opam pin add lambda-punter . (this is the actual lambda-punter server)

Running lambda-punter

• To run the server in online mode, type lampunt.

• Running lampunt --help lists some command line options.

• Running lampunt --offline runs two punters that eagerly pick the first river they comes across against one another.

• To play your own punters against each other in offline mode place them in subdirectories of punters and use the --punter-list command line option to specify a file containing a list of punters. Each punter foo should be placed in subdirectory foo as a binary called punter.

• You can find some different maps here:

  https://github.com/icfpcontest2017/icfpcontest2017.github.io/tree/master/maps

• To extract a JSON game from a log you can use json-game-of-log.sh. You can then watch a replay using PuntTV

  (which you will have to work out how to set up for yourself).

To properly understand what's going on: read the source code---then update this README.md to explain what's going on.