Note: Libespm has been deprecated in favour of esplugin, a library that exposes similar functionality through Rust and C APIs.
A free software library for reading Elder Scrolls Plugin (.esp) and Elder Scrolls Master (.esm) files. It can currently parse plugins for the following games:
- TES III: Morrowind
- TES IV: Oblivion
- TES V: Skyrim
- Fallout 3
- Fallout: New Vegas
- Fallout 4
Libespm focuses on providing a useful API to libloadorder and LOOT, rather than a general-purpose plugin parser.
- Boost Filesystem, Iostreams and Locale libraries (tested with v1.55.0 and v1.59.0)
Libespm itself is a header-only library, so if you want to use it, only the Boost libraries need to be built.
Libespm's test suite also requires Google Test (tested with v1.7.0), and build files can be generated using CMake. The Travis config file documents the process of building on Linux with GCC. The process on Windows with MSVC is equivalent.