A lot of languages claim to be "batteries included" meaning they have a lot of support libraries to keep you from having to roll your own code. Batteries aims to fill some of that gap for C++. There are many utilities here that are I have found useful. Google's Abseil project is a dependency because I don't want to have to duplicate perfectly good code.
- Conan is used for package management. You can install the most recent version at https://conan.io. If someone would like to recommend an alternate way of managing this dependency I would appreciate some help.
- Abseil is a requirement however the current master branch must be used. Unfortunately the string_view::at function was not included until after the last LTS. Until the next the next LTS release you'll need to build your own version:
git clone https://github.com/abseil/abseil-cpp.git
cd abseil-cpp
conan create . abseil/master@bincrafters/stable --keep-source
To build this you will need CMake version 3.9 or higher. Conan can also be used to build the library.
conan create . batteries/master@bincrafters/stable --keep-source
NOTE: This is not a bincrafters supported package.
To use this project you will need to add the following into your CMakeLists.txt file:
# integrate conan build process
include(${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/conanbuildinfo.cmake)
conan_basic_setup()
To install the packages run conan install . --build missing. You may get linking errors when compiling against this library
either for a batteries function that uses std::string_view or an abseil function that uses std::string_view. That is due to
compiling abseil or batteries with a different version of C++. To fix this enter the following from the batteries root directory
conan install . -s compiler.cppstd=17 --build missing.