libgfileio Documentation

0.1

libgfileio is a C++ library that wraps around the standard unbuffered Unix file I/O functions write() and read(). Besides those, it provides some other wrappers around file related functions. It is type safe and extensively uses C++ exceptions for error conditions.

Licensing

The software is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2 or later. See the COPYING file that comes with the tarball.

Platforms

libgfileio can be built under Sun(TM) Solaris(TM) version 10 or later, FreeBSD, and Linux.

Installation

The usual

./configure ; make ; make install

sequence. See the INSTALL file accompanying the tarball for further details.

Compilation and Linking

There are three ways to do this:

1. Manual

   Use the '-I', '-L', and '-l' flags of the compiler, for instance

   $ cc -I/usr/local/include/gfileio -L/usr/local/lib -lgfileio example.cc
   

2. pkg-config

   Libgfileio comes with a package config file (.pc). You could type for instance

   $ cc `pkg-config --cflags --libs libgfileio` example.cc
   

3. Autoconf/Automake

   If you are using autoconf/automake for your project, then add to your configure.ac file

   PKG_CHECK_MODULES(SOMEAPP, libgfileio >= 0.1)
   AC_SUBST(SOMEAPP_CFLAGS)
   AC_SUBST(SOMEAPP_LIBS)
   

Homepage

Point your browser to http://www.guengel.ch/myapps/libgfileio.

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