This is a Wordsearch generator written in C largely as an exercise in remembering how to use C having originally implemented it in Java (see https://github.com/fooflington/wordsearch-c).

Compiling

Generally you'll probably want the Release version which has Optimisation enabled:

cd Release && make

This will drop a wordsearch executable

Running

Usage: wordsearch <height> <width> [ words ... ]

For example:

$ ./wordsearch 15 15 gaping panicky lock purple geese massive judge hateful

For an existing list of words, the following form can be useful:

$ cat file.txt | xargs ./wordsearch 15 15

There are some example wordlists included in tests.