Linux System Monitor

This Linux System Monitor is an inspiration from htop, a popular system monitor. This project code is written in C++ programming language using its Object Oriented Programming features such as Inheritance, Composition, Polymorphism etc. A graphical display output library named ncurses displays the system information in the terminal. The starter code for this project is provided by Udacity as a part of C++ nanodegree program.

ncurses

ncurses is a library that facilitates text-based graphical output in the terminal. This project relies on ncurses for display output.

Install ncurses within your Linux environment: sudo apt install libncurses5-dev libncursesw5-dev

Make

This project uses Make. The Makefile has four targets:

• build compiles the source code and generates an executable
• format applies ClangFormat to style the source code
• debug compiles the source code and generates an executable, including debugging symbols
• clean deletes the build/ directory, including all of the build artifacts

Instructions to clone and execute the code

1. Clone the project repository: git clone https://github.com/ram-ravan/Linux-System-Monitor.git

2. To compile the project, first, create a build directory and change to that directory:

mkdir build && cd build

From within the build directory, then run cmake and make as follows:

cmake ..
make

3. Build the project: make build

4. Run the resulting executable: ./build/monitor