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