PhysFS++ (the header only version)

PhysFS++ is a C++ header-only wrapper for the excellent PhysicsFS library by Ryan C. Gordon and others.

This is a fork of the original C++ wrapper. I found it a bit silly to have to carry around an extra .dll/.so file for such a small wrapper. This project just moved the implementation code around so that you don't need to build and link against phyfs++. Just configure your compiler to use PhysicsFS as you would do anyway and you don't have anything extra to do.

It is licensed under the zlib license - same as PhysicsFS (at the time of writing).

Usage

Point your compiler's include path to (or add to your project)

In only one single .cpp file (one single compilation unit): define the implementation point of the library

#define PHYFSPP_IMPL
#include "physfs.hpp"

Then, you can just include physfs.hpp and uses it's C++ interface instead of the plain old C one.

Requirements

The PhysicsFS library.

Features

The wrapper simply wraps most functions in a PhysFS namespace, and gives them C++ signatures (std::string rather than const char *).

Additionally:

• Functions that are related to byte order conversions are placed in the PhysFS::Util namespace.
• Instead of replicating PHYSFS_openRead, PHYSFS_openWrite, and PHYSFS_openAppend, files are opened as streams using PhysFS::ifstream and PhysFS::ofstream.
• ofstream's constructor takes a mode, which specifies either append or write.
• Both ifstream and ofstream are standard streams, and only have an extra method - length, which calls PHYSFS_fileLength.