CPCOS - Cross-Platform C++ Open-source Starter Project
This project aims to benifit C++ developers by providing a ready-to-start environment which
- integrates popular open-source libraries with sample code
- is able to compile under the 3 main PC platform - Windows, Linux (Ubuntu) and MacOS
- can be cross-compiled for embedded platform (i.e. embedded Linux for arm) within a docker container
- conan
- docker (optional, for cross-compile only)
- build for local machine (tested on OSX and Linux only)
$ ./build.sh - cross build for {i386, arm32v7} linux
- create docker container for target environment (for 1st time only)
$ ./create_docker_image_arm32v7.sh # arm (ex. rpi)$ ./create_docker_image_i386.sh # i386 - enter docker environment
$ ./run_docker_arm32v7.sh # arm$ ./run_docker_i386.sh # i386 - build the project just like local environment
$ ./build.sh
- create docker container for target environment (for 1st time only)
- (optional) apply pre-commit
- install
pre-commit(see instructions) - setup the project (only required once)
$ pre-commit install
- install
Software development with C and C++ usually requires 3rd-party libraries, which save developers a lot of time.
However, playing with 3rd-party libraries is still painful since there're too many choices for the same feature. To evaluate a 3rd-party library, developers should read the documents, sample code and better to test it before introduce into current project -- the evaluation process takes a lot of effort and time.
Furthermore, if multi-platform support (or cross-compile) is required, the dependency issue increases drastically along with the number of introducesd libraries -- sloving it will be a nightmare.
That's the reason I started this project, and hopefully it will reduce some development overhead for others and we can spend more time on software design and coding.