libclipboard 
A cross-platform clipboard library.
Currently supported actions
- Checking clipboard data ownership
- Clearing clipboard
- Retrieving/setting text (UTF-8)
Supported platforms
- Windows
- Linux (X11)
- OS X (Cocoa)
Platforms to be supported in the future
- Linux (Wayland) (maybe)
Requirements
- cmake
- gtest & g++ >= 4.7 (optional; for unit testing)
- libxcb-dev (for Linux/X11)
- pthreads (for Linux/X11)
Building
Quickstart
git clone https://github.com/jtanx/libclipboard
cd libclipboard
cmake .
make -j4
sudo make install (optional)
Building test module and samples
cd libclipboard
git submodule init
git submodule update
git clean -dxf (if you had a previous build)
cmake .
make check -j4
To add SOVERSION to the library (i.e. libclipboard.so.1), configure with
cmake -DLIBCLIPBOARD_ADD_SOVERSION=ON
To build a shared library instead of a static library
cmake -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON
To build the library using the stdcall calling convention
cmake -DLIBCLIPBOARD_USE_STDCALL=on
To force the build of a particular backend, choose one of
cmake -DLIBCLIPBOARD_FORCE_WIN32=on
cmake -DLIBCLIPBOARD_FORCE_X11=on
cmake -DLIBCLIPBOARD_FORCE_COCOA=on
Note: This setting has only been tested for compiling the X11 backend on Windows.
To uninstall
sudo make uninstall