Console Captcha

This fun program was created for the Laurie Wired Programming Challenge 2024.

It brings the well-loved Captcha requests to the Terminal world. The program is written in C++ on Linux Mint 21 and can be compiled with g++ (see the Makefile).

For a precompiled version, see the Releases section of this repository.

Compile on Linux

# just compile
make

# cleanup target directory before compile
make rebuild

The executable will be created as file: ./target/console-captcha

Compile on Windows

Since the required dependency termios.h is not included in MinGW, cross-platform compilation is not supported. But the program can be compiled directly on Windows using CygWin.

Required Cygwin dependencies

Select the following custom packages in the Cygwin setup:

• make (4.4.1-2)
• gcc-g++ (12.4.0-3)
• cygwin-devel (3.5.4-1)

Compile in Cygwin Terminal

# just compile
make win

# cleanup target directory before compile
make rebuild-win