IOLib-Filters version 4.0
| Official homepage: | http://iolib.sourceforge.net |
| eMail: | robert.kausch@gmx.net |
This software is released under
the terms of the GNU Library General Public License (LGPL). See
the file 'Copying.lib' for details.
Contents
- What's new in IOLib-Filters 4.0
- About the author
- What is IOLib-Filters?
- How do I use it?
- Reporting bugs
What's new in IOLib-Filters 4.0
The following things have been added or changed since IOLib-Filters release 4.0-pre1:
- some adjustments for IOLib 4.0
About
the author
- the library has been ported to FreeBSD, Tru64 Unix and Solaris
IOLib was written by Robert Kausch. You can contact me at robert.kausch@gmx.net.
I am an 18 year old student from Lueneburg/Germany. I started writing computer programs in 1994. My
first programming language was QBasic (it was part of MS-DOS). In 1996 I started to write Windows
applications with GFA-Basic (a mixture of Basic, Pascal and C). After a hard disk failure in mid 1998
nearly all my source code was lost and so I bought a book about C++ and started learning.
Currently I'm maintaining two OpenSource projects. SMOOTH
and IOLib.
What
is IOLib-Filters?
IOLib-Filters is a set of data filters for IOLib. IOLib-Filters
includes filters for encryption/decryption, compression/decompression and image file IO. It's also a good
example of writing filters for IOLib.
How
do I use it?
First you have to compile IOLib-Filters for your system. Since this release, IOLib-Filters is compatible
with the following operating systems and compilers:
- Linux GCC
If you want to have your compiler/OS supported send me a download URL or send a copy to my home address (ask for it via eMail).
- Windows GCC-MinGW32 (no shared Objective C library)
- Windows GCC-Cygwin (no shared Objective C library)
- Windows MS Visual C++ (C and C++ libraries only)
- Windows Borland C++ (static C and C++ libraries only)
- Windows LCC-Win32 (C libraries only)
- BeOS GCC
- QNX GCC
- DOS GCC-DJGPP (static libraries only, no socket support)
- FreeBSD GCC
- Tru64 Unix Compaq C (static C library only)
- Solaris GCC
- possibly some others, porting should be easy
Just type 'make' ('nmake' for MSVC, 'make -s' for LCC) in the distribution directory to get a list of the available targets. Then type 'make [target]' to
compile IOLib-Filters for your system and programming language.
IOLib-Filters depends on the IOLib headers and libraries. You should create a directory structure which looks like the
following before you build IOLib-Filters:
/$(your_src_directory)/iolib
/$(your_src_directory)/iolib-filters
Please compile IOLib first. If you have installed the IOLib headers and libraries somewhere where your compiler and linker
can find them, it might work without all this (at least on GCC targets).
After you have compiled IOLib-Filters you can type 'make [target]-install' to install the library in the default prefix (usually /usr/local or /usr)
and optionally 'make [target]-clean' to clean the build directory.
You can change the install prefix by editing the toplevel makefile.
If you do not know how to use external filters with IOLib, then have a look at the IOLib documentation please.
Reporting
bugs
If you think you've found a bug in IOLib-Filters please submit a full bug
report including a detailed description of how to reproduce the
bug (it would be very nice if you included the source code that
produces the bug in your report). If possible, please write a
patch that fixes the bug and send it along with the report.
If you have found any bugs in IOLib please contact me at
robert.kausch@gmx.net.
Please visit the official IOLib homepage at iolib.sourceforge.net and try the newest release of IOLib-Filters
first!