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https://github.com/septag/libdhcore
Lightweight, performance oriented, Core library for 'C' programmers
https://github.com/septag/libdhcore
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Lightweight, performance oriented, Core library for 'C' programmers
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/septag/libdhcore
- Owner: septag
- License: bsd-2-clause
- Created: 2014-06-10T16:35:39.000Z (over 10 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2015-08-10T10:27:36.000Z (over 9 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-11-14T21:38:23.824Z (28 days ago)
- Language: C
- Size: 874 KB
- Stars: 53
- Watchers: 4
- Forks: 4
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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README
## libdhcore: darkHAMMER Core 'C' library
Version 0.5.2-dev
[http://www.hmrengine.com](http://www.hmrengine.com)
[https://github.com/septag/libdhcore](https://github.com/septag/libdhcore)
### Description
*libdhcore* is a lightweight and cross-platform C (C99) library with C++ wrappers, mainly targeted to game developers. It is used in *darkHAMMER* game engine, I don't know how mature it is, but it is being used and tested for 2 years in various projects.
It can be built with GCC, MSVC and Clang compilers, on x86, x86-64 and ARM platforms, including windows, linux, MacOS and RaspberryPI.
Source code License is BSD.
Here's a list of library modules and their descriptions:
- **Memory manager**: Automatic leak detection, Memory ID tracing and stats (allocate by userId), with allocator and alignment support.
- **Dynamic Array**: Fast C-friendly dynamic array container
- **Color**: RGBA color type with common math functions
- **Commander**: Command line argument parser and setup
- **Crash manager**: Multi-platform crash handler and callstack report, with user definable callbacks on application crash
- **Error manager**: Error handling functions, for keeping Error stack with reports
- **File-IO**: File IO abstraction (memory and disk), with Virtual directory support, PAK files and automatic directory monitoring
- **FreeList allocator**: Fixed size, dynamic malloc, freelist allocator for custom allocations
- **Pool allocator**: Fast dynamic size, fixed malloc, pool allocator for custom memory allocations
- **Stack allocator**: Very fast Stack based allocator for temperory custom memory allocations
- **Hash tables**: Optimized Open, Closed and Chained Hash table implementations with Linear probing and support for custom allocators.
- **Hash**: Murmur (32bit, 128bit, incremental) hashing functions
- **Hardware Info**: Multi-platform CPU and memory information queries
- **JSON**: JSON parser and writer, which is a thin wrapper over cJSON library with custom allocators
- **Linked List**: Common C-style linked list
- **Logging**: Formatted logging system, to different targets like console terminal, files and custom user functions.
- **MT**: Cross-platform threading and Atomic functions, using Posix on unix derivatives and Win32 API on Windows.
- **Sockets**: Sockets (UDP/TCP) wrapper functions
- **Numeric**: Random numbers, and common numeric helper functions
- **Pak files**: Compressed (or non-compressed) PAK file reading and writing.
- **Primitives**: Rectangle, Sphere and AABB types with common mathematic functions
- **Queue**: Common C-Style queue structure
- **Stack**: Common C-Style stack structure
- **JSON-RPC**: Flexible JSON-RPC parsing and responding, API signature control and help generation
- **Standard math**: Common helper math functions
- **Vector math**: Common SIMD optimized Vector math, Vector, Matrix and Quaternions (left-handed system)
- **String helpers**: *libdhcore* doesn't provide string objects, but provides helper functions for common String and Path manipulations
- **Task Manager**: Multi-threaded task dispatcher
- **Timer**: High-Res OS timers
- **Utility functions**: Common OS specific functions, copy, move, delete files, etc.
- **Compresssion**: Thin layer over *miniz* library for data compression
### Installation
#### Linux/Waf
Install the packages listed below before proceeding to build and install the library :
- **git**: source control client (not required, as you can download the source too)
- **python**: version 3 or higher, required in order to run the *waf* build system
- **waf**: It also can be found in `libdhcore/var/waf` directory
- **gcc**: Tested on version 4.8
After checking for above packages, run these commands, and change `/install/path` to your preferred path on disk (for example: `--prefix=/usr`) :
```
git clone [email protected]:septag/libdhcore.git
cd libdhcore
waf configure --prefix=/install/path
waf build
sudo waf install
```
To build debug libraries, which will have `-dbg` suffix after their names, use the commands below instead of last two lines:
```
waf build_debug
sudo waf install_debug
```
To build test applications (*$(prefix)/bin/dhcore-test*) , use `--build-tests` argument in `waf configure`.
To use a __Cross Compiler__, like for example compiling for RaspberryPI device, use `CC` and `CXX` enviroment variables, and `--platform` argument in *configure* and provide platform code for builder.
For example, I have a ARMv6 cross compiler named *armv6-rpi-linux-gnueabi-gcc*, I use below command to configure the build for RaspberryPI device (under unix):
```
CC=armv6-rpi-linux-gnueabi-gcc CXX=armv6-rpi-linux-gnueabi-g++ waf configure --platform=linux_rpi
```
For more *configure* options, run `waf --help` when you are in *libdhcore* directory to see more command line arguments.
#### Linux/QtCreator
The code can also be built with Qt Creator. Fetch the code from _github_, open the project file `libdhcore.pro` and build.
#### Windows/Visual Studio
There is also Visual Studio 2013 projects under `vs2013` folder. Open the solution. Choose your configuration and build.
The code can also be built with _Qt Creator_. Just open the project file `libdhcore.pro` and build.
#### MacOS/Xcode
There are xcode project files under `xcode` directory.
The code can also be built with _Qt Creator_. Just open the project file `libdhcore.pro` and build.
### Usage
Make sure the you have setup *include* and *library* paths of *libdhcore* in your compiler. Then include any header file from `dhcore` directory into your source. And link your program to `dhcore`.
Main include file is `dhcore/core.h`, and before everything else you must *Initialize* core lib at the beginning of your program and *Release* it after everything else is done:
```
#include
#include "dhcore/core.h"
int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
result_t r = core_init(CORE_INIT_ALL);
if (IS_FAIL(r))
exit(-1);
puts("Hello world");
core_release(TRUE); // pass TRUE for leak report
return 0;
}
```
#### C++ Wrappers
Some data types have C++ wrappers, like containers (array, hashtable), allocators (freelist, stack, pool) and math primitives (vectors, matrix, geometric). So C++ programmers can use those and benefit from cleaner syntax and easier functionality.
### Documentation
For API documentation (which is at it's early stage), check out this [API Documentation](http://www.hmrengine.com/docs/core/html).
You can also build the documentation by installing **doxygen** and *cd* to `/path/to/libdhcore/doc` directory and run:
```
doxygen doxygen-core.conf
```
After that, HTML documentation will be ready at `doc/html` directory
### Credits
- **libdhcore**: Sepehr Taghdisian *(septag@github, sep.tagh@gmail)*
- **cJSON**: [http://sourceforge.net/projects/cjson](http://sourceforge.net/projects/cjson)
- **miniz**: [https://code.google.com/p/miniz](https://code.google.com/p/miniz)
- **waf**: [https://code.google.com/p/waf](https://code.google.com/p/waf)