https://github.com/mjansson/foundation_lib

Cross-platform public domain foundation library in C providing basic support data types and functions to write applications and games in a platform-independent fashion.
https://github.com/mjansson/foundation_lib

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Cross-platform public domain foundation library in C providing basic support data types and functions to write applications and games in a platform-independent fashion.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/mjansson/foundation_lib
• Owner: mjansson
• License: unlicense
• Created: 2013-01-14T11:56:43.000Z (over 11 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2023-11-05T16:44:58.000Z (11 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-04-13T20:15:58.025Z (5 months ago)
• Topics: c, cross-platform, platform
• Language: C
• Homepage:
• Size: 6.5 MB
• Stars: 294
• Watchers: 28
• Forks: 24
• Open Issues: 2
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Changelog: CHANGELOG
  • License: LICENSE
  • Roadmap: ROADMAP

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# Foundation Library  -  Public Domain

This library provides a cross-platform foundation library in C providing basic support data types and

functions to write applications and games in a platform-independent fashion. It provides:

* Abstractions and unification of basic data types

* Pluggable memory management

* Threads and synchronization

* Atomic operations

* Timing and profiling

* Object lifetime management

* Events processing

* File system access

* Dynamic library loading

* Process spawning

* Logging, error reporting and asserts

* String handling in UTF-8 and UTF-16

* Murmur hasing and statically hashed strings

* Math support for 32 and 64 bit floats

* JSON/SJSON parser

* SHA256/SHA512 digest

* Application, environment and system queries and control

* Regular expressions

* Exception utilities (SEH, signals)

It is written with the following API design principles in mind:

* Consistent. All functions, parameters and types should follow a well defined pattern in order to make it easy to remember how function names are constructed and how to pass the expected parameters.

* Orthogonal. A function should not have any side effects, and there should be only one way to perform an operation in the system.

* Specialized. A function in an API should perform a single task. Functions should not do completely different unrelated tasks or change behaviour depending on the contents of the variables passed in.

* Compact. The API needs to be compact, meaning the user can use it without using a manual. Note though that "compact" does not mean "small". A consistent naming scheme makes the API easier to use and remember.

* Contained. Third party dependencies are kept to an absolute minimum and prefer to use primitive or well-defined data types.

Platforms and architectures currently supported:

* Windows (x86, x86-64), Vista or later

* MacOS X (x86-64), 10.7+

* Linux (x86, x86-64, PPC, ARM)

* FreeBSD (x86, x86-64, PPC, ARM)

* iOS (ARMv7, ARMv7s, ARMv8/AArch64), 6.0+

* Android (ARMv6, ARMv7, ARMv8/AArch64, x86, x86-64, MIPS, MIPS64)

* Raspberry Pi (ARMv6)

Discord server for discussions

https://discord.gg/M8BwTQrt6c

The latest source code maintained by Mattias Jansson is always available at  

Main branch is used for development. Releases are tags on main branch.

Cross-platform build system uses Ninja  

This library is put in the public domain; you can redistribute it and/or modify it without any restrictions.

Created by Mattias Jansson ([@maniccoder](https://twitter.com/maniccoder))