You will need the following installed:
sudo apt install g++
sudo apt install build-essential
# using openmp for parallelism
sudo apt install libomp-dev
# to convert the .ppm's to .mp4
sudo apt install ffmpeg# in ParallelBoids/
make -j4
# run executable
./Simulator# build, init, and run the program
cd scripts/
./ParallelBoids.shParameters to the program (such as #boids & #threads) can be tuned at runtime (does not require recompilation) by editing params.ini in params/params.ini