Projects/Libmowgli
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Introduction
libmowgli is a class library containing performance and usability oriented extensions to C. It is designed to work in conjunction with GTK+'s GLib, but also functions well as a standalone library.
Features
libmowgli contains:
- mowgli_alloc: A safe wrapper around malloc/free.
- mowgli_argstack: Safe serialization of valists.
- mowgli_assert: Various assertion routines that can be used.
- mowgli_bitvector: Bitmasks with an unlimited level of precision.
- mowgli_dictionary: A keyword-backed definition hashtable class.
- mowgli_error_backtrace: Provide feedback to users on what caused the error they are recieving.
- mowgli_exception: Assertions with user feedback.
- mowgli_formatter: A simple token formatter which is sometimes useful.
- mowgli_global_storage: A simple global storage library.
- mowgli_hash: A portable implementation of the FNV-1 hash.
- mowgli_heap: An optimistic heap-based memory allocator
- mowgli_hook: A simple hooks API you can use for your application, which allows for hooks to provide both application data and user data.
- mowgli_ioevent: Portable I/O completion ports for many OSes.
- mowgli_list: A high performance linked lists implementation with O(1) scalability for most common operations.
- mowgli_logger: An internal class for handling logging of exceptions.
- mowgli_memorypool: A class which allows for memory pooling.
- mowgli_module: A wrapper around dlopen(3) and dlsym(3).
- mowgli_object: A simple class which provides reference counted pointers and polymorphism of structs.
- mowgli_object_class: Classing and subclassing for objects.
- mowgli_object_metadata: Metadata for objects.
- mowgli_object_messaging: Messaging and signalling for objects.
- mowgli_queue: A simple class which implements double-ended queues.
- mowgli_random: A high performance psuedo-random number generator.
- mowgli_signal: A wrapper for sigaction(2).
- mowgli_spinlock: Portable spinlocks.
Download
Latest stable release:
- 0.7.0:
Previous releases:
- 0.6.1: tgz tbz2
- 0.6.0: tgz tbz2
- 0.5.0: tgz tbz2
- 0.4.0: tgz tbz2
- 0.3.1: tgz
- 0.3.0: tgz
- 0.2.0: tgz
- 0.1.5: tgz
- 0.1.4: tgz
- 0.1.3: tgz
- 0.1.2: tgz
- 0.1.1: tgz
- 0.1.0: tgz
Installation
Installation is fairly typical:
./configure make sudo make install
(If sudo isn't on your system, su to root. On GNU systems you can even do "su -c 'make install'", which is basically the same thing as using sudo.)
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