heinezen / genieutils-1

A library for reading and writing the file formats used in the Genie engine (AoE, AoC, SWGB, etc.)

genieutils

Genieutils consists of a library to work with certain data and resource/asset files of genie engine games.

Notice that this library is in developement, that means the API will change. Please also backup your files before editing to avoid file corruption because of possible bugs.

This repo is originally a fork of https://github.com/Tapsa/genieutils, but because a lot of stuff doesn't like github forks, it is now a separate repo.

Features

• reading/writing of empires*.dat and genie*.dat files
• reading (and some writing) of drs, slp, blendomatic, and pal files
• reading of scn, scx, cpx, bln files
• reading/writing of language*.dll files

Dependencies

• A modern C++ Compiler (i. e. supports C++17)

This assumes that you do a recursive clone of the repo or remember to update the submodules, otherwise you need to install zstr, and winiconv when building for Windows.

You can update submodules after cloning the repo or pulling new commits by doing:

git submodule update --init --recursive

Building

The build uses CMake.

mkdir build && cd build
cmake ..
cmake --build .

This creates a genieutils.dll or libgenieutils.so file.

To create a static library instead, use the GENIEUTILS_STATIC_BUILD flag:

cmake .. -DGENIEUTILS_STATIC_BUILD=YES
cmake --build .

Optionally, enable link-time optimization:

cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DENABLE_IPO=YES
cmake --build .