cpcos

CPCOS - Cross-Platform C++ Open-source Starter Project

This project aims to benifit C++ developers by providing a ready-to-start environment which

1. integrates popular open-source libraries with sample code
2. is able to compile under the 3 main PC platform - Windows, Linux (Ubuntu) and MacOS
3. can be cross-compiled for embedded platform (i.e. embedded Linux for arm) within a docker container

Requirements

1. conan
2. docker (optional, for cross-compile only)

Quick Start

• build for local machine (tested on OSX and Linux only) $ ./build.sh
• cross build for {i386, arm32v7} linux
  1. create docker container for target environment (for 1st time only) $ ./create_docker_image_arm32v7.sh # arm (ex. rpi) $ ./create_docker_image_i386.sh # i386
  2. enter docker environment $ ./run_docker_arm32v7.sh # arm $ ./run_docker_i386.sh # i386
  3. build the project just like local environment $ ./build.sh
• (optional) apply pre-commit
  • install pre-commit (see instructions)
  • setup the project (only required once) $ pre-commit install

Introduction

Software development with C and C++ usually requires 3rd-party libraries, which save developers a lot of time.

However, playing with 3rd-party libraries is still painful since there're too many choices for the same feature. To evaluate a 3rd-party library, developers should read the documents, sample code and better to test it before introduce into current project -- the evaluation process takes a lot of effort and time.

Furthermore, if multi-platform support (or cross-compile) is required, the dependency issue increases drastically along with the number of introducesd libraries -- sloving it will be a nightmare.

That's the reason I started this project, and hopefully it will reduce some development overhead for others and we can spend more time on software design and coding.