MacStd

Provides templates and function helpers for OS X API using Standard C++ in XCode 13+

Features

Portable

This project does not require building. Just #include individual files from this repository into your source code and get started.

Functions and Templates

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...

MacStd provides a subset of OS X API identically named functions (C++ polymorphism to the rescue), where one can use std::string, std::wstring, std::vector<> etc. as an output parameter. MacStd handles all the dirty work with memory allocation for you, so you can focus on your code.

Example

std::string path;
_NSGetExecutablePath(path);
std::cout << path.c_str() << std::endl;

What MacStd Is Not

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++.

Usage

1. Clone the repository into your solution folder.
2. Add MacStd's include folder to Header Search Paths in your project's C/C++ settings.
3. Include .h files from MacStd as needed:

#include <MacStd/dyld.hpp>
#include <string>
#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

void main()
{
    wstring path;
    _NSGetExecutablePath(path);
    wcout << path.c_str() << endl;
}

An auto-generated documentation is here.

More examples can also be found in the Tests project.

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.