https://github.com/jtsiomb/assfile

C library for accessing assets (read-only data) from many different sources, with an fopen/fread-like API.
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C library for accessing assets (read-only data) from many different sources, with an fopen/fread-like API.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/jtsiomb/assfile
• Owner: jtsiomb
• License: lgpl-3.0
• Created: 2018-09-28T05:37:12.000Z (over 6 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2023-03-28T23:47:21.000Z (about 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-03-18T02:22:09.988Z (2 months ago)
• Language: C
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• Size: 49.8 KB
• Stars: 17
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: COPYING

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README

        
assfile

======

About

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Assman is a library for accessing assets (read only access to data files) in

multiple ways through a simple file I/O interface designed as a drop-in

replacement to C fopen/fread/etc I/O calls. In most cases you can just prefix

all your I/O calls with `ass_` and change `FILE*` to `ass_file*`, and it will

just work.

The access modules provided are:

 - `mod_path`: maps an arbitrary filesystem path to your chosen prefix. For

   instance, after calling `ass_add_path("data", "/usr/share/mygame")` you can

   access the data file `/usr/share/mygame/foo.png` by calling

   `ass_fopen("data/foo.png", "rb")`.

 - `mod_archive`: mounts the contents of an archive to your chosen prefix. For

   example, after calling `ass_add_archive("data", "data.tar")` you can access

   the contents of the tarball as if they where contents of a virtual `data`

   directory.

 - `mod_url`: maps a url prefix to your chosen prefix. For example, after

   calling `ass_add_url("data", "http://mydomain/myapp/data")` you can access

   `http://mydomain/myapp/data/foo.png` by calling

   `ass_fopen("data/foo.png", "rb")`.

License

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Copyright (C) 2018 John Tsiombikas 

The assfile library is free software. Feel free to use, modify, and/or

redistribute it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License

version 3, or at your option any later version published by the Free Software

Foundation. See COPYING and COPYING.LESSER for details.

Build

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To build and install assfile on UNIX, run the usual:

    ./configure

    make

    make install

The `mod_url` module depends on `libcurl` and uses POSIX threads. If you don't

want that dependency, you can disable `mod_url` by passing `--disable-url` to

`configure`.

See `./configure --help` for a complete list of build-time options.

To cross-compile for windows with mingw-w64, try the following incantation:

    ./configure --prefix=/usr/i686-w64-mingw32

    make CC=i686-w64-mingw32-gcc AR=i686-w64-mingw32-ar sys=mingw

    make install sys=mingw