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 and providing Bash completion
• dealing with dates and times
• conversion of primitive data types to byte-buffers and vice versa (litte-endian and big-endian)
• common string conversions/operations, eg.

• character set conversion via iconv
• split, join, find and replace
• conversion from number to string and vice verca
• encoding/decoding base-64

• IO

• reading/writing primitive data types of various sizes (little-endian and big-endian)
• reading/writing terminated strings and size-prefixed strings
• reading/writing INI files
• reading bitwise

• building with CMake by providing some modules and templates

Build instructions

Requirements

Build-only dependencies

• C++ compiler supporting C++11, tested with

• GNU g++
• mingw-w64
• Clang

• CMake, tested 3.5.1 and 3.6.0
• cppunit for unit tests (optional)
• Doxygen for API documentation (optional)
• Graphviz for diagrams in the API documentation (optional)

Runtime dependencies

• The c++utilities library itself only needs

• the C/C++ standard library
• libiconv (might be part of glibc or provided as extra 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 c++utilities_apidoc # build API documentation (optional)
make DESTDIR="/temporary/install/location" install

General notes

• Building with qmake is not supported anymore.
• The make option -j can be used for concurrent compilation.
• LIB_SUFFIX, LIB_SUFFIX_32 and LIB_SUFFIX_64 can be set to specify a suffix for the library directory, eg. lib64 or lib32. The 32/64 variants are only used when building for 32/64-bit architecture.

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/source/directory"
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 CMake's add_subdirectory() function. For project files see the repository subdirs.

For a debug build, just use -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug.

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.

RPM package

A *.spec files can be found at openSUSE Build Servide.

General notes

• There is a workaround for GCC Bug 66145 provided in io/catchiofailure.h.

TODO

• remove unused features