Near-final version of Effective Modern C++ available -- Scott Meyers

By Blog Staff | Aug 21, 2014 08:57 AM | Tags: intermediate c++14 c++11 advanced

Scott's long-awaited book on using C++11 and C++14 is nearing completion:

Near-Final Draft of Effective Modern C++ Now Available (plus TOC and sample Item)

by Scott Meyers

From the announcement:

Effective Modern C++ is moving closer and closer to reality. This post contains:

•     Information about availability of an almost-final draft of the book.
•     The current (and probably final) table of contents.
•     A link to the I-hope-I-got-it-right-this-time version of my Item on noexcept.

Note: Scott's session at CppCon ("Type Deduction and Why You Care") is based on the first chapter of Effective Modern C++.

G3log released, asynchronous logging with custom log sinks

By KjellKod | Aug 21, 2014 04:33 AM | Tags: None

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G3log is an asynchronous logger with support for adding custom made logging sinks. 

G3log is open source and cross-platform. G3logs builds on the asynchronous logger g2log that was released in 2011.  The current release supports dynamic adding of logging sinks and significant performance improvements. 

G3log features compelling functionality such as:

• Logging and design-by-contract framework
• LOG calls are asynchronous to avoid slowing down the LOG calling thread
• LOG calls are thread safe
• Queued LOG entries are flushed to log sinks before exiting so that no entries are lost at shutdown
• Catching and logging of SIGSEGV and other fatal signals ensures controlled shutdown
• On Linux/OSX a caught fatal signal will generate a stack dump to the log
• G3log is cross platform, currently in use on  Windows, various Linux platforms and OSX

G3log can be built with Visual Studio 2013, Clang and GCC4.7 or newer.

Release information can be found at author's blog. See also the project's page on Bitbucket.

Boost 1.56.0 is released

By Eric Niebler | Aug 7, 2014 11:23 AM | Tags: intermediate boost

Some welcome news from Boost.org...

Boost 1.56.0 has been released

These open-source libraries work well with the C++ Standard Library, and are usable across a broad spectrum of applications.
The Boost license encourages both commercial and non-commercial use.

This release contains one new library and numerous enhancements and bug fixes for existing libraries.

This is the first release since November of last year, and the last one since Boost migrated from a monolithic Subversion repository to modularized git repositories on github.com. The end users should see no change though, since the archives have the same layout as previous releases.

Read the full announcement for all the details, and for download links.

CodeSynthesis XSD 4.0.0 Released, Adds Support for C++11

By Boris Kolpackov | Jul 29, 2014 05:43 PM | Tags: None

CodeSynthesis XSD 4.0.0 Released, Adds Support for C++11

XSD is an open source, cross-platform W3C XML Schema to C++ data binding compiler. Provided with a schema, it generates C++ classes that represent the given vocabulary as well as XML parsing and serialization code. You can then access the data stored in XML using types and functions that semantically correspond to your application domain rather than dealing with elements, attributes, and text in a direct representation of XML such as DOM or SAX.

Major new features in this release:

• Support for C++11 in addition to C++98.
• Support for ordered types including mixed content.
• Support for anyType and anySimpleType content extraction as DOM and text, respectively.
• Improved streaming, partially in-memory parsing and serialization support including better XML namespace handling and streaming at multiple document levels.
• Automatic generation of make-style dependency information.

This release also adds support for Clang as well as Visual Studio 2012 (11.0) and 2013 (12.0).

A more detailed discussion of these features can be found on the blog. For the complete list of new features in this version see the official release announcement.

XSD is written in portable C++ (both C++98/03 and C++11 are supported) and you should be able to use it with any reasonably modern C++ compiler. In particular, we have tested this release on GNU/Linux (x86/x86-64), Windows (x86/x86-64), Mac OS X (x86), and Solaris (x86/x86-64/SPARC) with GNU g++ 4.2.x-4.8.x, MS Visual C++ 2005, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, Sun Studio 12u2, and Clang 3.x.

More information, documentation, source code, and pre-compiled binaries are available on the project's page.

7 Reasons C++ Devs Will Love the VS 14 CTP -- Nish Sivakumar

By Blog Staff | Jul 26, 2014 05:34 PM | Tags: None

Fresh on CodeProject:

7 Reasons C++ Devs Will Love the VS 14 CTP

by Nish Sivakumar

From the article:

This is by no means a comprehensive list of C++ features added in the VS 14 CTPs, nor does it try to be. It's merely a small selection of C++ language and IDE features that I felt were attractive to a C++ developer from a practical point of view. These are features that I feel developers could start using in their code right away...

Boost 1.56.0 beta 1 released

By marshall | Jul 18, 2014 08:09 AM | Tags: boost

Boost release 1.56.0 beta 1 is now available from SourceForge

This release contains 2 new libraries:

• Align: Memory alignment functions, allocators, and adaptors, from Glen Fernandes.
• Type_Index: Runtime/Compile time copyable type info, from Antony Polukhin.

Modularization

Boost version control has migrated to a system using git submodules. This shouldn't make too much of a difference to users, although the directory structure is now a bit different.

Parts of some libraries have been moved into different modules, and several new modules have been extracted from existing code. All header paths should remain the same.

The new modules are:

• Assert: Customizable assert macros. Maintained by Peter Dimov.
• Core: Core utilities used by other libraries, with minimal dependencies. Maintained by Peter Dimov, Glen Fernandes and Andrey Semashev.
• Lexical_Cast: General literal text conversions, such as an int represented a string, or vice-versa, from Kevlin Henney.
• Throw_Exception: A common infrastructure for throwing exceptions from Boost libraries, from Emil Dotchevski.
• Winapi: Windows API declarations without <windows.h>, for internal Boost use.

For details of what's in the release, see http://www.boost.org/users/history/version_1_56_0.html.

Note that the links to files on this web page are for the final release - use the SourceForge link above to get the beta files.

Please download the beta, give it a try. If you encounter any problems, please report them on the boost mailing list.

Solaris Studio 12.4 Beta update 7/2014

By SteveClamage | Jul 15, 2014 01:34 PM | Tags: None

The Oracle Solaris Studio 12.4 Beta, Update 7/14 release is now available for download.

This update includes new features and enhancements based on current user feedback during the Beta program. We look forward to getting additional feedback!

Feature highlights in this update include:

• Additional support for C++11, including full support for Lambda expressions and initializer lists
• Updated Performance Analyzer with a completely redesigned UI that automatically saves your configuration settings and allows you to save custom configurations, new Heap data view, new metrics to track IPC/CPI, and call-tree enhancements
• Updated Code Analyzer with performance and memory usage improvements
• OpenMP 4.0 implementation tuned for the latest Oracle systems
• And many more features, enhancements and fixes in response to user feedback

Learn More and explore resources including the What's New guide and the latest videos and articles.

POCO Development Release 1.5.3 Available -- Guenter Obiltschnig

By Blog Staff | Jul 1, 2014 02:34 PM | Tags: None

A minor update of POCO is available with some new functionality. Release 1.5.3 is planned to be the last in the series of 1.5.x development releases. Next is 1.6.0. and 2.0, with introduction of C++11/14 features.

POCO Development Release 1.5.3 Available

by Guenter Obiltschnig

We're told by the POCO labs that the list of major 1.5.3 additions is as follows:

New Libraries:

• SevenZip

New Classes:

• Poco::Clock
• Poco::Net::NTPClient

New major features:

• Windows PowerShell build script

New Platforms supported:

• SmartOS
• Windows Embedded Compact 2013

JetBrains ReSharper for C++ -- Daria Dovzhikova

By Blog Staff | Jul 1, 2014 02:16 PM | Tags: None

For those interested in checking out some new C++ refactoring tools support, if you're working in Visual Studio, news from JetBrains:

ReSharper for C++ EAP Goes On

by Daria Dovzhikova

From the article:

As you might have already heard the Early Access Program for ReSharper with C++ support is in progress.

We prepared a new build and wanted to share a quick update on what new features and options it brings to the table: ...

CMake 3.0.0 Released

By Hauke | Jun 12, 2014 05:52 PM | Tags: None

A new major version of CMake, v3.0.0 has been released. CMake is a tool for cross platform C/C++ (and more) build poject configuration.

Version 3.0.0 contains many improvements. To get an idea of the recent changes, as well as the improvements of CMake over the last months and years, take a look at the following links:

• Release announcements/changes
• Modern tutorial