C++ Library for Windows

• App & WebView2 classes
• Filesystem functions
• Text handling
• Attachable console

Requirements:

• C++ 23 Compiler (MSVC/Clang)
• Nuget package manager CLI
  • Included with Visual Studio
  • https://www.nuget.org/downloads
  • winget CLI (part of App Installer) (https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9NBLGGH4NNS1)
    • winget install Microsoft.NuGet

Usage

Git submodule:

git submodule add https://github.com/mthierman/Glow.git libs/Glow

add_subdirectory(libs/Glow)

add_executable(
    ${PROJECT_NAME}
    main.cxx
)

target_link_libraries(
    ${PROJECT_NAME}
    PRIVATE
    glow::glow
)

CMake FetchContent:

include(FetchContent)

FetchContent_Declare(
    glow
    URL https://github.com/mthierman/Glow/archive/refs/heads/main.zip
)
FetchContent_MakeAvailable(glow)

add_executable(
    ${PROJECT_NAME}
    main.cxx
)

target_link_libraries(
    ${PROJECT_NAME}
    PRIVATE
    glow::glow
)

Compiler flags

To use a recommended set of MSVC/Clang flags, optionally link to glow::flags

target_link_libraries(
    ${PROJECT_NAME}
    PRIVATE
    glow::glow
    glow::flags
)

Attributions

• WebView2 - license
• C++/WinRT - license
• Windows Implementation Library - license
• JSON for Modern C++ - license
• Ada URL Parser - license
• SQLite - license
• WiX Toolset