Cartograph - base package: support classes that don't deal with image processing.

Note: In version 4.4, a new IO library, soma-io, has been designed, and some of the contents of the former cartobase library have moved to soma-io. It mainly deals with the IO system, but not only: allocators, options parsing, plugins and other utilities are now in soma-io.

Provided libraries and commands:

cartobase library

Requirements:

The cartobase library now needs the following libraries installed on the compiling system:

libsigc++ 2.0 or newer: http://sourceforge.net/projects/libsigc/
libxml2: http://xmlsoft.org/

Optionally, the followng libraries may be used if available:

boost: http://boost.org for thread-safe reference counters

Building:

Use CMake, a cross-platform and open-source build system. More information on The BrainVISA-cmake build system. See also this page on BrainVISA website.

Main contents:

namespace: carto
generic objects: Object, GenericObject, ValueObject, ReferenceObject, and standard interfaces: Interface
See the Generic object API changes
exceptions: io_error, errno_error and families.
reference counters and other smart pointers: rc_ptr, weak_ptr, scoped_ptr
other portable filename / file / directory utilities: FileUtil, Directory
STL-like containers:
- block (buffers of fixed size)
portable threads: Thread, Mutex, ThreadedLoop etc.
UUID: unique identifiers
libsigc++ observer patterns and protected includes (avoiding conflicts with Qt)
future Algorithm class
type and conversion utilities:
- type identifiers: DataTypeCode template
- Converter base template class
- static inheritance test: SUPERSUBCLASS
- backwards compatible std::numeric_limits in <cartobase/type/limits.h> and stringstreams: <cartobase/stream/sstream.h>
- string conversions: toString, stringTo, split, join, stringLower, stringUpper...
other general utility classes, functions and macros:
- debug messages printing: ::dbgMsg,

Other programming rules and notes:

Keeping Portability
Change Log