Portability Library

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• Introduction
• Dependencies
• Contents

Introduction

The portability library provides platform-independent interfaces to platform-specific features. This is so that programs can be written to be inherently portable by using this library to access those features. The target platforms for portability are Windows NT/2k/XP/Vista and all flavours of Posix-compliant Unix, including all the flavours of Linux on PCs, MacOS X on the Apple Macintosh, plus Solaris, HP-UX and AIX on engineering workstations. The target architectures are either 32-bit or 64-bit CPUs. The target compilers are Gnu's gcc (for Linux, MacOS and Windows) and Microsoft's Visual Studio (for Windows).

Dependencies

The portability library has no dependencies and so can be used as a stand-alone library.

Contents

The components provided are:

• portability_fixes.hpp: Fixes for OS- & compiler-specific problems
• file_system.hpp: File System Access
• subprocesses.hpp: Subprocess Handler
• tcp_sockets.hpp: TCP Internet classes
• udp_sockets.hpp: UDP Internet classes
• dynaload.hpp: Dynamic Library Loader class
• dprintf.hpp: Safe Printf-like String Formatting
• wildcard.hpp: Wildcard String Matching
• time.hpp: Time Manipulation Functions
• build.hpp: Program Build Reporting
• inf.hpp: An Infinite-Precision Integer Type
• debug.hpp: Debugging Utilities