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 Gnu/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 Gnu/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