SmallPP is an object-oriented framework for C. Like small C++. Small CPP. SmallPP. Ok, I will stop.
A couple years ago I've worked in Cubiware (later Rovi later TiVo later Xperi... new year - new owner). We made software for Set-Top Boxes which was written in C. But it wasn't an ordinary C codebase - we had an object-oriented framework! And it was great, it has inheritance, polymorphism, interfaces, standard library with data types like string, hash table, array etc. Super cool stuff.
I thought it would be a cool exercise to try to implement something like that on my own. Of course I will not use any propertiary code from Cubiware. I don't have it, I don't remember most of it - and even if I did, I would break a license.
Currently implemented features:
- single object inheritance
- virtual function calls
- ability to check if object is an instance of another object
This project uses CMake as a build system. First build the CMake files:
cmake -S . -B <output_folder_path>
And then compile with:
cd <output_folder_path>
makeLibrary and all examples' executables will be build inside your <output_folder_path>
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