A small C++17 support library, for the things the standard library leaves to the platform.
Most of it exists because the answer differs between Windows and the rest of the world: console color, UTF-8 that survives a Windows console, launching a child process, loading a shared object. The rest is a handful of containers and utilities that kept getting rewritten.
Header-only where it can be, compiled where it has to be. No dependencies beyond the standard library, and Boost.Test for the test suite alone.
- C++17
- CMake 3.16 or newer
- Windows, Linux or macOS. MSVC, clang-cl, GCC and Clang are all built and tested.
git clone https://github.com/stdware/stdcorelib.git
cd stdcorelib
cmake -B build -S . \
-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/path/to/install
cmake --build build --config Release
cmake --install build --config Releasefind_package(stdcorelibREQUIRED)
target_link_libraries(myappPRIVATEstdcorelib::stdcorelib)Or as a subdirectory:
add_subdirectory(stdcorelib)
target_link_libraries(myappPRIVATEstdcorelib::stdcorelib)| Component | |
|---|---|
| Command line | Declaring what a program takes, and reading back what it was given |
| Processes and libraries | Starting a child process, loading a shared object |
| Text | Strings, formatting, the console, UTF conversion |
| Containers and views | array_view, vlarray, linked_map, any |
| Type identity | Naming a type without RTTI, and registries built on that |
| Logging | Named categories with per-level switches and filter rules |
| JSON and CBOR | One tree, both encodings |
| Platform and system | Program and machine information, the Windows registry |
| Utilities | Flags, scope guards, version numbers |
Each carries its own description and an example. Build the stdcorelib_docs target with -DSTDC_BUILD_DOCS=ON, or read the headers, which is where that text lives.
Code derived from these is cited where it is used:
The test suites use:
The documentation is built and styled with:
MIT. See LICENSE.