ic3man5 / ice

C++ classes for easy dynamic library use.

ice Library

This is a very simple class to make dynamic library loads simple and easy. This code should multi-platform. The library gets automatically cleaned up and ice::Exception is thrown when an error occurs.

Example Code

#include <ice/ice.h>

try
{
    ice::Library lib("foo");
    ice::Function<int (int, int)> func(&lib, "foofunc");
    int i = func(2, 5);
}
catch (ice::Exception& ex)
{
    // ex.whatString() will look similar to this:
    // Failed to Retrieve address of function 'foofunc': Windows Error #0 for 'foo'
}

// lib and func auto clean up when they go out of scope

Using Library Manager:

#include <ice/ice.h>

try
{
    // Init the library and call a function
    std::cout << "Testing LibraryManager...\n";
    auto mgr = ice::LibraryManager::instance();
    mgr.add("myLibrary", "myLibrary.dll");
    ice::Function<int (int, int)> myAdditionFunction(mgr["myLibrary"], "myAdditionFunction);
    std::cout << "2 + 2 = " << myAdditionFunction(2, 2) << "\n";
    // Throw an exception when we have an invalid library
    mgr["nope"].getPath();
}
catch (ice::Exception& ex)
{
    std::cout << ex.what() << "\n";
    return 1;
}

// lib and func auto clean up when they go out of scope



// Output:
Testing LibraryManager...
2 + 2 = 4
LibraryManager Failed to retreive 'nope' From loaded library list!

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c)

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ice's Issues

Add licence file to explain which license covers the ICE code

May I suggest MIT (http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT) or BSD 3 Clause (http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause) license?

non-windows platforms not tested

Code needs to be compiled and tested on another platform (linux) to see if it works.