CrossFile

Intro

I've always felt the need for one single C/C++ library to handle all the file formats I need. The search has been quite long, and I've failed hard in finding an appropriate library. For this, I'm now writing one myself. Whatever binary file format I need to interact with, CrossFile must and will support it.

CrossFile is a cross-platform file I/O library that aims to provide support for reading, modifying, and creating the supported file formats from scratch.

CrossFile aims :

• to support all the file formats I need (font, images, executables, archives, data, etc...)
• to provide a uniform cross-platform interface for interaction with these files
• to read/modify/edit/create the files.
• to be free forever and simple to use

Build

To build and install CrossFile as a library on your system, follow the following steps :

• Create a build directory where you want to build the library. I usually name this as Build inside the project root itself.

• Go inside Build directory and open a terminal, or you can follow any other method to go to that directory inside the terminal.

• Run the following command :

  • If you have Ninja installed on your system, then use it, it's better : cmake .. -G Ninja -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
  • If you don't have Ninja installed, then we'll just use GNU Make : cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release

• The last step will generate build files needed for building the project, and now you can run :

  • ninja if you have Ninja installed
  • make -j${nproc} if you have make installed. You can run just make as well. The only difference is number of threads provided for building the project.

• The last step will build the project, and now you can run it (for now) using bin/main