Lolcat

An imperfect implementation of the lolcat program written in C. The original version was written in V and can be found in the original-main branch.

Requirements

• (gnu) make
• A version of gcc or clang that supports c11
• A (*)nix based operating system.

Installation

To install lolcat you can run the following commands

git clone https://github.com/chrisBirmingham/lolcat
cd lolcat
make
[sudo] make install

By default, the makefile installs to /usr/local/bin. This can be overridden with the PREFIX variable

make install PREFIX=~/.local

Limitations

• The truecolor and rgb256 colour palettes are the only supported colour palettes. Truecolor is the default colour patlette if it cannot detect your supported colour pallet via COLORTERM or TERM
• If you have NO_COLOR set or TERM is set to dumb, lolcat will exit with EXIT_FAILURE instead of printing plain text. Use cat if you don't want coloured text.

Inspiration/Attributions

• Jim Bumgardner for his excellent tutorial on making annoying rainbows here
• The Ruby Paint Gem for their truecolor to rgb256 conversion logic
• And of cource lolcat