Subspace Library

An experimental take on a safer, simpler C++ standard library.

Please don't use this library. This is an experiment and we don't yet know where it will take us. There will be breaking changes without warning, and there is no stable version.

Getting started

Install depot_tools
Install CMake
Install python3
gclient sync --jobs=16
cmake -B out
cmake --build out
ctest --test-dir out

CMake options

The CMake files define the following options:

SUBSPACE_BUILD_CIR, defaults to ON, set to OFF to disable CIR build
SUBSPACE_BUILD_SUBDOC, defaults to ON, set to OFF to disable Subdoc build

Clang format

The latest LLVM release does not have sufficient C++20 support to format the library correctly. To get a more bleeding edge clang-format executable, we get it from the Chromium project. The binary is downloaded by gclient and resides in third_party/buildtools/<platform>/clang-format. Point your IDE at that executable.

For Windows/VSCode.

Install Visual Studio 2022. Don't bother installing the CMake tools from it, they don't work as well
Set the "Windows SDK Version" in VSCode to 10.0.19041.0 (or the version installed with Visual Studio)
Set the "CMake: Generator" in VSCode to Visual Studio 17 2022, or add it to "CMake: Preferred Generators"

Building CIR and Subdoc

CIR is a mid-level representation of C++ built on Clang in the spirit of Rust's MIR.

Subdoc is a documentation generator from inline C++ documentation in the spirit of Rustdoc.

These both require an installation of LLVM from Git HEAD, including the LLVM/Clang headers and libraries.

By default, in VSCode it looks for LLVM and clang in your system paths, but you can override this to point to your own installation from your VSCode user settings:

"cmake.environment": {
    "LLVM_DIR": "path/to/llvm/install/lib/cmake/llvm",
    "Clang_DIR": "path/to/llvm/install/lib/cmake/clang",
},

To build LLVM from VSCode, the following can be put in LLVM's .vscode/settings.json:

{
    "cmake.configureOnOpen": false,
    "cmake.sourceDirectory": "${workspaceFolder}/llvm",
    "cmake.buildDirectory": "${workspaceFolder}/build/${buildType}/${variant:platform}",
    "cmake.installPrefix": "${workspaceFolder}/build/install",
    "cmake.generator": "Ninja",
    "cmake.configureArgs": [
        "-DLLVM_ENABLE_PROJECTS=clang",
    ],
    "C_Cpp.default.configurationProvider": "ms-vscode.cmake-tools"
}

Then use VSCode to choose a build configuration and run the "CMake: Build" and "CMake: Install" tasks.

Windows

On windows, set the environment variable LLVM_DEBUG=1 if the LLVM build was a debug build in order for CIR to link the appropriate runtime.

Copyright

All source files must include this header:

// Copyright 2023 Google LLC
//
// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
// You may obtain a copy of the License at
//
//     https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
//
// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
// limitations under the License.

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