/fortran-xkcd

xkcd client for X11 written in Fortran 2018

Primary LanguageFortranISC LicenseISC

fortran-xkcd

An fpm example project written in Fortran 2018 that displays the latest xkcd comic inside an X window. As a limitation, only images in PNG format are supported (no JPEG). The alt text will be printed to console.

The program depends on X11, libcairo, libcurl, as well as the following Fortran libraries:

You can pass the xkcd number to view a specific comic strip:

$ ./xkcd 292

Screen Shot

screen shot

Build Instruction

Just clone the repository and build the executable with fpm:

$ git clone https://github.com/interkosmos/fortran-xkcd
$ cd fortran-xkcd/
$ fpm build --profile=release
$ fpm run

The binary xkcd will be written to build/<compiler>/app/.

Licence

ISC