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CppCon 2017: EA’s Secret Weapon: Packages and Modules--Scott Wardle

By Adrien Hamelin | Jun 6, 2018 11:33 AM | Tags: community

Have you registered for CppCon 2018 in September? Early bird registration is open now.

While we wait for this year’s event, we’re featuring videos of some of the 100+ talks from CppCon 2017 for you to enjoy. Here is today’s feature:

EA’s Secret Weapon: Packages and Modules

by Scott Wardle

(watch on YouTube) (watch on Channel 9)

Summary of the talk:

A lot of people hate build systems. What if using a library was just as easy as header-only libraries?

EA has had a Secret Weapon called “packages” for over 14 years. EA's Packages are like Ruby’s Gems or Perl’s CPAN or Rust’s cargo. If you build a package from the package server it will download all of its dependencies.

This talk will be about what we have learned about packages and versioning while building our large AAA games over the last 10+ years. Finally, what do we see for the future, like how will C++ modules fit in?

In detail I will talk about:
-Package layout
-Package server
-Versioning control and packages
-Libraries teams and platform fragmentation
-Packages' effect on large scale architecture
-C++ Modules TS prototypes

Start speaking at Meeting C++ 2018

By Meeting C++ | Jun 6, 2018 07:19 AM | Tags: speaking meetingcpp community basics

As it was a big success last year, Meeting C++ has again a track for new speakers, and is looking for folks which like to submit their talk ideas to the conference!

The call for Talks for Meeting C++ 2018 ends on June 17th.

Call for a more diverse program at Meeting C++ 2018!

by Jens Weller

From the article:

Last years track for new speakers was a great success, so Meeting C++ will dedicate a track to this now in every year. So I'd like to reach out to the C++ Community, who do you think has something interesting to say about C++ and could start speaking at this years Meeting C++?

C++ User Group Meetings in June

By Meeting C++ | Jun 5, 2018 08:12 AM | Tags: meetingcpp community

Lots of User Groups are meeting in June, Meeting C++ has posted an detailed overview:

C++ User Group Meetings in June 2018

by Jens Weller

From the article:

The monthly overview of upcoming C++ User Group meetings. Join a C++ User Group near you, or learn how to start your own!

There are 4 new C++ User Groups: Houston, Prague, Cluj, New York.

 

Hello CMake!--Arne Mertz

By Adrien Hamelin | May 28, 2018 01:14 PM | Tags: intermediate community

Do you use it?

Hello CMake!

by Arne Mertz

From the article:

Since I have mentioned CMake in a handful of past blog posts, it is time to give a short introduction for those that don’t know it yet.

CMake is one of the most popular build systems for C++ out there. One of the main reasons probably is that it is cross-platform: It does not build the project itself but operates a platform-specific system. That means it can generate Makefiles, ninja-build files, or project files for Visual Studio or Xcode, to name just a few...

Default-constructibility is overrated--Arthur O’Dwyer

By Adrien Hamelin | May 18, 2018 11:19 AM | Tags: community advanced

What do you think?

Default-constructibility is overrated

by Arthur O’Dwyer

From the article:

The Ranges Technical Specification includes very many concept definitions (based on the Concepts TS), including for example Integral and Predicate. It also provides a concept named Regular which implements a variation on the “Regular” concept described by Alexander Stepanov in his paper '’Fundamentals of Generic Programming’’ (1998)...

Quick Update on C++ Compiler Bug Hunt--No Bugs" Hare

By Adrien Hamelin | May 10, 2018 11:43 AM | Tags: community

Looking for the bug.

Quick Update on C++ Compiler Bug Hunt

by No Bugs" Hare

From the article:

Some time ago, I wrote a post about kscope – mini-project on finding and reporting bugs in modern C++ compilers. The point was that there is a way to use C++ facilities to make C++ code self-mutating (more strictly – pseudo-randomized using externally supplied ITHARE_KSCOPE_SEED macro), which allows finding certain classes of bugs during randomized testing. In the previous post, I wrote about 12 bugs reported, with 3 of them already fixed. I have to admit that since that point, I didn’t have as much time as I’d like to spend on kscope; still, 3 more bugs were reported (2 of them being codegen bugs) – and quite a few were fixed (fortunately, bugfixing is one thing which doesn’t require my participation <wink />)...

[[trivial_abi]] 101--Arthur O’Dwyer

By Adrien Hamelin | May 7, 2018 12:41 PM | Tags: community advanced

Interesting!

[[trivial_abi]] 101

by Arthur O’Dwyer

From the article:

Finally, a blog post on [[trivial_abi]]!

This is a brand-new feature in Clang trunk, new as of about February 2018. It is a vendor extension to the C++ language — it is not standard C++, it isn’t supported by GCC trunk, and there is no active WG21 proposal to add it to the standard C++ language, as far as I know...

Submission Reminder--cppcon

By Adrien Hamelin | May 7, 2018 12:39 PM | Tags: community

Don't forget.

Submission Reminder

by cppcon

From the article:

The deadline for session submissions is only days away. Review the Call for Submissions and make your submission soon. You can run your ideas by the Submission Advice mailing list, but you must hurry for this. The advice list gets very busy as the deadline draws near...

March 2018 ISO C++ Meeting Trip Report (SG1: Concurrency and Parallelism)--Thomas Rodgers

By Adrien Hamelin | Apr 30, 2018 02:00 PM | Tags: experimental community

The future is still getting closer.

March 2018 ISO C++ Meeting Trip Report (SG1: Concurrency and Parallelism)

by Thomas Rodgers

From the article:

This year’s Winter ISO C++ Standard Committee meeting was held in March in Jacksonville, Florida. A number of larger features, for which there is substantial interest but which are also difficult to get right, were discussed:

  • Concepts, along with Concept types from the Ranges TS; see P0898 and n4685
  • Modules; see n4689
  • Coroutines; see n4723
  • Networking; see n4711
  • Executors; see p0443