Pico

Pico is a spartan framework that allows you to write websites in C++ and C.

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About

Pico provides a straightforward way to compile a C++ project to a webassembly based webpage. It does not provide system libraries, not even dynamic memory allocation!

Pico's goal is to give C++/C programmers a library that provides useful features that are wanted when experimenting with C/C++, for example:

• A simple GUI function set that you can use to create games, like text based roguelikes.
• A simple events function set that you can use to interact with the code.
• A set of useful helper functions like "ToCharArray" that converts any value to a string,

Features

• Access div elements.
• Access text area elements.
• Access button events.
• Access window events.
• Create alerts.
• Print to the console.
• Invoke console errors.

Examples

Examples of how to use Pico are held in the /examples/ folder.

Setting up LLVM

OS X

1. LLVM "brew install llvm"
2. Python 3 (or some other web server script)

Windows

1. Python 3 Note: The binaries for windows are provided in the /llvm/ directory, so no further installation is required.

Getting Started

1. Download the repository.
2. Edit the build.bat (windows) or build.sh (os x) to point to your LLVM installation.
3. Run a local web server at this directory by using start_web.bat or start_web.sh (requires Python).
4. Open the /app/ directory and create your C++ Pico app.
5. Edit the index.html with your HTML elements.
6. Build your app by running build.bat or build.sh.
7. Open your web browser and navigate to localhost:8000 (see step 3).

Changes

28/02/2020 - Open sourced the code repository. 29/02/2020 - Added more information to the readme about - Added LLVM binaries for windows.

Credits

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