Getting started may be the most challenging part of every new library. This guide is describing how to start with the library quickly and effectively
Library is primarly hosted on Github.
You can get it with:
- Downloading latest release from releases area on Github
- Cloning
master
branch for latest stable version - Cloning
develop
branch for latest development
All releases are available on Github releases area.
This is used when you do not have yet local copy on your machine.
- Make sure
git
is installed. - Open console and navigate to path in the system to clone repository to. Use command
cd your_path
- Clone repository with one of available
3
options- Run
git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/MaJerle/lwmem
command to clone entire repository, including submodules - Run
git clone --recurse-submodules --branch develop https://github.com/MaJerle/lwmem
to clone development branch, including submodules - Run
git clone --recurse-submodules --branch master https://github.com/MaJerle/lwmem
to clone latest stable branch, including submodules
- Run
- Navigate to
examples
directory and run favourite example
- Open console and navigate to path in the system where your resources repository is. Use command
cd your_path
- Run
git pull origin master --recurse-submodules
command to pull latest changes and to fetch latest changes from submodules onmaster
branch - Run
git pull origin develop --recurse-submodules
command to pull latest changes and to fetch latest changes from submodules ondevelop
branch - Run
git submodule foreach git pull origin master
to update & merge all submodules
Note
This is preferred option to use when you want to evaluate library and run prepared examples. Repository consists of multiple submodules which can be automatically downloaded when cloning and pulling changes from root repository.
At this point it is assumed that you have successfully download library, either cloned it or from releases page. Next step is to add the library to the project, by means of source files to compiler inputs and header files in search path
- Copy
lwmem
folder to your project, it contains library files - Add
lwmem/src/include
folder to include path of your toolchain. This is where C/C++ compiler can find the files during compilation process. Usually using-I
flag - Add source files from
lwmem/src/
folder to toolchain build. These files are built by C/C++ compiler - Copy
lwmem/src/include/lwmem/lwmem_opts_template.h
to project folder and rename it tolwmem_opts.h
- Build the project
Configuration file is used to overwrite default settings defined for the essential use case. Library comes with template config file, which can be modified according to needs. and it should be copied (or simply renamed in-place) and named lwmem_opts.h
Note
Default configuration template file location: lwmem/src/include/lwmem/lwmem_opts_template.h
. File must be renamed to lwmem_opts.h
first and then copied to the project directory where compiler include paths have access to it by using #include "lwmem_opts.h"
.
List of configuration options are available in the api_lwmem_opt
section. If any option is about to be modified, it should be done in configuration file
../../lwmem/src/include/lwmem/lwmem_opts_template.h
Note
If you prefer to avoid using configuration file, application must define a global symbol LWMEM_IGNORE_USER_OPTS
, visible across entire application. This can be achieved with -D
compiler option.
To verify proper library setup, minimal example has been prepared. Run it in your main application file to verify its proper execution
../examples_src/example_minimal.c