Common C++ classes and routines used by my applications such as argument parser, IO and conversion utilities
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c++utilities
Common C++ classes and routines used by my applications such as argument parser, IO and conversion utilities.
Features
The library utilizes:
- parsing command-line arguments
- dealing with chronology (DateTime, TimeSpan)
- conversion of primitive data types to byte-buffers and vice versa, supporting litte-endian and big-endian
- common string conversions/operations, eg.
- split, join, findAndReplace
- numberToString, stringToNumber
- encodeBase64, decodeBase64
- IO
- reading/writing primitive data types of various sizes (little-endian and big-endian)
- reading/writing terminated strings and size-prefixed strings
- bitwise reading
- parsing INI files
- building with CMake by providing some modules and templates
Build instructions
Requirements
Build-only dependencies
- C++ compiler supporting C++11 (I've tested GNU g++, Clang and mingw-w64 yet.)
- CMake (I've only tested 3.5.1 so far.)
- cppunit for unit tests (optional)
Runtime dependencies
- The c++utilities library itself only needs the C/C++ standard library.
- For dependencies of my other projects check the README.md of these projects.
How to build
Just run:
cd "path/to/build/directory"
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="/final/install/location" "path/to/projectdirectory"
make
make check # build and run unit tests (optional)
make DESTDIR="/temporary/install/location" install
General notes
- The make option -j can be used for concurrent compilation.
- Building with qmake is not supported anymore.
Building for Windows
Building for Windows with Mingw-w64 cross compiler can be utilized using a small cmake wrapper from Fedora:
${_arch}-cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="/final/install/location" "path/to/projectdirectory"
make DESTDIR="/temporary/install/location" install-mingw-w64-strip
- To create the *.ico file for the application icon ffmpeg/avconv is required.
- The target
install-mingw-w64-strip
in the example will only install files suitable for creating a cross-compiler package and additionally strip the binaries.
Development builds
During development I find it useful to build all required projects (for instace c++utilities, qtutilities, tagparser and tageditor) as one big project.
This can be easily achieved by using CMakes add_subdirectory()
function. For project files
see the repository subdirs.
For a debug build, just use -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug
.
Creating Arch Linux package
The repository PKGBUILDs contains files for building Arch Linux packages. PKGBUILD files to build for Windows using the Mingw-w64 compiler are also included.
Notes
- Because of GCC Bug 66145 usage of the new libstdc++ ABI is currently disabled. Linking against cppunit built using new libstdc++ ABI isn't possible.
TODO
- rewrite argument parser (the API might change slightly)
- remove unused features