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<div class="headertitle"><div class="title">MacStd </div></div>
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<div class="textblock"><p><a class="anchor" id="md__r_e_a_d_m_e"></a></p>
<p>Provides templates and function helpers for OS X API using Standard C++ in XCode 13+</p>
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Features</h1>
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Portable</h2>
<p>This project does not require building. Just <code>#include</code> individual files from this repository into your source code and get started.</p>
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Functions and Templates</h2>
<p>Different OS X API functions have different ways of returning variable-sized data. Getting tired of carefully studying manpages for each particular API function how to preallocate the output memory correctly? We too...</p>
<p>MacStd provides a subset of OS X API identically named functions (C++ polymorphism to the rescue), where one can use <code>std::string</code>, <code>std::wstring</code>, <code>std::vector&lt;&gt;</code> etc. as an output parameter. MacStd handles all the dirty work with memory allocation for you, so you can focus on your code.</p>
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Example</h3>
<div class="fragment"><div class="line"> ++</div>
<div class="line">std::string path;</div>
<div class="line">_NSGetExecutablePath(path);</div>
<div class="line">std::cout &lt;&lt; path.c_str() &lt;&lt; std::endl;</div>
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What MacStd Is Not</h1>
<p>MacStd is not trying to be a full-fledged object-oriented framework on top of OS X API. MacStd aims at augmenting OS X API with a little bit of help from C++.</p>
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Usage</h1>
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<li>Clone the repository into your solution folder.</li>
<li>Add MacStd's <code>include</code> folder to <em>Header Search Paths</em> in your project's C/C++ settings.</li>
<li>Include <code>.h</code> files from MacStd as needed: <div class="fragment"><div class="line"> ++</div>
<div class="line"><span class="preprocessor">#include &lt;MacStd/dyld.hpp&gt;</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="preprocessor">#include &lt;string&gt;</span></div>
<div class="line"><span class="preprocessor">#include &lt;iostream&gt;</span></div>
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<div class="line"><span class="keyword">using namespace </span>std;</div>
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<div class="line"><span class="keywordtype">void</span> main()</div>
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<div class="line"> wstring path;</div>
<div class="line"> _NSGetExecutablePath(path);</div>
<div class="line"> wcout &lt;&lt; path.c_str() &lt;&lt; endl;</div>
<div class="line">}</div>
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<p>An auto-generated documentation is <a href="https://amebis.github.io/MacStd/">here</a>.</p>
<p>More examples can also be found in the <code><a class="el" href="interface_tests.html">Tests</a></code> project.</p>
<p>This is a one-man project for the time being, so the OS X API support is far from complete. It is added as needed. Contributions are welcome. </p>
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