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The Studio Framework

1.0.2

Summary

The Studio Framework is a set of C++ classes that take care of the common things every application has to do, such as parameter parsing, plugin handling, runtime type information on objects, threads, curses, and scripting.

Requirements and Building

Building SFW requires the following packages:

A modern C++ compiler. I use gcc 2.95.2, and recommend you do too. The last version of egcs might work, too. Older versions of egcs which don't have support for 'namespace' will not work.
A modern libstdc++. I use libstdc++-3, and you should be too, I seriously doubt anything older will work.

The following are currently optional:

GNU Readline - upgrade to 4.1, 2.2 has outdated headers. If you get errors regarding readline, you need to upgrade. If your distribution doesn't have one, you can find the source at:
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/readline/
Make sure if you build this from source to do 'make shared' and 'make install-shared', since you need the shared libraries. You can safely remove your old readline and link libreadline.so.3 to the new libreadline.so.4, as well. (You will probably have to do this.)
NGS/NJS JavaScript - 0.2.5. Many people have an older version, 0.2.4, that gets installed with various things like the KDE support libraries. This one won't work. You should be safe deleting old the libraries and headers (look for libjs.*, js.h, jsint.h) and installing the new ones. (I'm not even sure KDE actually uses that libjs. ;)
This is probably not terribly easy to find unless you know where to look, which is at the following location:
http://sourceforge.net/project/?group_id=3438
Make sure to compile this with --enable-shared! It is for some reason off by default, and you will run into problems later with the static version (besides taking up more memory and disk space)

After you make sure you have these things, SFW should configure, make, and install without incident. I highly recommend you use epkg, the Encap Package Manager, if you have to compile any of the above from source, and for SFW. Epkg is an excellent tool for maintaining packages built from source, written by Mark Roth. You can get epkg and find out more information about it at http://encap.cso.uiuc.edu/.

If you run into any problems (other than those listed above), don't hesitate to mail me at <rpav@mythosource.org>.

Usage

SFW doesn't do anything itself, it's just the class library. Go get TemplateFactory if you'd like to see an example-in-action, plus have a useful utility for making files.

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