HuffmanCodes

Building the project

Provided you have dotnet core installed, the project can be built in any of the following ways:

• Running the release task in vscode.
• Running either build.sh or build.ps1 from the appropriate shell.
• Executing the following command in any shell

sh dotnet publish ./src/HuffmanCodes/HuffmanCodes.csproj -c release -o ./release

Running the program

Project can be be ran from the command line using:

Usage:
  ./release/<arch>/HuffmanCodes[.exe] ENCODEDFILE [SOURCEFILE]

  ENCODEDFILE   Path to file to be encoded

  SOURCEFILE    Path to file used to generate the huffman 
                codes (Defaults to ENCODEDFILE)

Example

Encode Alice.txt using LittleWomen.txt to generate Huffman codes

Linux ./release/linux-x64/HuffmanCodes ./Alice.txt ./LittleWomen.txt Windows ./release/win-x64/HuffmanCodes.exe ./Alice.txt ./LittleWomen.txt

Output

Outputs will be in the format of ENCODEDFILE_Encoded_by_SOURCEFILE.txt So in the above example, the resulting file would be

LittleWomen_Encoded_by_Alice.txt

Scripts

Running either test.sh, or test.ps1 will build and run the program with all variations of text files we used. (Note: The scripts are not very robust, and must be ran in the root directory of the project.)