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By Blog Staff | Sep 23, 2014 10:37 AM | Tags: None
Recently on Dr. Dobb's, a quick how-to:
Setting Up a Test Environment for C++14
by Mark Nelson
From the article:
Interestingly, I did all my development using clang from the LLVM project running on a ubuntu-14.04 LTS system hosted on Microsoft Azure...
By Blog Staff | Sep 18, 2014 09:26 AM | Tags: None
If you're using Qt, have you looked at KDE Fx?
Release of KDE Frameworks 5.2.0
KDE Frameworks are 60 addon libraries to Qt which provide a wide variety of commonly needed functionality in mature, peer reviewed and well tested libraries with friendly licensing terms. For an introduction see the Frameworks 5.0 release announcement.
New in this version: ... [read the announcement for the complete list]
By Blog Staff | Sep 15, 2014 02:29 PM | Tags: None
At CppCon last week, Dropbox announced Djinni (pronounced "genie"), a new open source C++ library. From the announcement:
Djinni is a tool for generating cross-language type declarations and interface bindings. It's designed to connect C++ with either Java or Objective-C.
We at Dropbox use Djinni to interface cross-platform C++ library code with platform-specific Java and Objective-C on Android and iOS.
We announced Djinni at CppCon 2014. See the slides here: https://bit.ly/djinnitalk Video coming soon!
Main Features
- Generates parallel C++, Java and Objective-C type definitions from a single interface description file.
- Supports the intersection of the three core languages' primitive types, and user-defined enums, records, and interfaces.
- Generates interface code allowing bidirectional calls between C++ and Java (with JNI) or Objective-C (with Objective-C++).
- Can autogenerate comparator functions (equality, ordering) on data types.
Dropbox's CppCon talk slides explain more details, including that Dropbox is using C++ not for "legacy" reasons. Rather, Dropbox is "building (mostly) new apps. Not dealing with lots of legacy code. Not dealing with (very) old platforms. We're building multiple apps." And the language of choice for having a single source code base that can target iOS, Android, OS X, Linux, and Windows is... C++. Their approach is to use C++ for the common code, and a thin bridge (via Djinni) to the Java-specific code on Android, the Objective-C-specific code on iOS, and so on.
A full video of the presentation will be available in approximately one month.
By Alex Korban | Sep 10, 2014 06:01 PM | Tags: None
This post describes my first impressions from taking the new JetBrains CLion C++ IDE (currently in alpha) for a spin:
JetBrains CLion C++ IDE First Impressions
It looks like a promising product with interesting features, and I'm looking forward to seeing how it develops.
By Blog Staff | Aug 29, 2014 09:35 AM | Tags: None
In case you missed it:
Cinder 0.8.6 Released
The award-winning C++ graphics library Cinder has been updated with support for:
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++.
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:
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.
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.
By Boris Kolpackov | Jul 29, 2014 05:43 PM | Tags: None
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:
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.
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...
