WinMine

A Rust port of the classic Windows Minesweeper (WinMine). The goal is to faithfully recreate the original game's behavior and appearance, while fixing some bugs and modernizing the codebase.

Build

This is Windows-only and uses Win32 APIs. Make sure you have Rust with the MSVC toolchain installed.

cargo build

For an optimized build:

cargo build --release

Run

cargo run

Or launch the built binary directly:

• Debug: target\debug\winmine.exe
• Release: target\release\winmine.exe

What is included

• Win32 GUI built with winsafe and windows-sys
• Registry-backed settings and best times under HKCU\Software\Microsoft\winmine
• DPI-aware window scaling

Differences from the original WinMine

This project aims to be faithful, but there are a few deliberate changes and fixes:

• Window size has been tweaked, as the original is cut off on the bottom and right on modern systems.
• Preferences are saved on exit; the original only wrote settings in narrower cases.
• The Custom dialog only starts a new custom game if settings were actually saved; cancel leaves the current game alone.
• Invalid or empty Custom dialog input now keeps the dialog open instead of defaulting to the minimum.
• XYZZY mouse tracking only runs during an active game to avoid false positives.
• Saved window position is not clamped to 0..1024
• Legacy pre-registry ini migration is removed.
• Sound can always be toggled on or off by pressing F4, instead of only toggling when sound was already enabled. (On <-> Off instead of Off <- On <-> Muted)
• Window sizing assumes a single-row menu bar.
• Help on Help is served from the bundled winmine.chm instead of NTHelp.chm.
• winmine.chm is included into the executable and extracted to %TEMP%\winmine.chm as needed, instead of being a separate file in the installation directory.

Notes

This is a reimplementation, binary-compatibility is not guaranteed. If you spot a behavior mismatch, file an issue with steps to reproduce.