EHS/README.md

# About
Much like boost.io this library is a replacement of the standard C/C++ libraries. It provides most features needed when 
designing applications in a cross-platform manner. The goal for this project is for it to be compiled and run on 
anything which means embedded hardware support.

This project does not fully follow the C++ standard.

### Features
- Audio IO/Processing/Manipulation
- Image Processing/Manipulation
- Databases
- 3D Model & Mesh Processing/Manipulation
- File IO
- Basic File Monitoring
- Console IO
- 2/3/4D Vectors
- 2x2/3x3/4x4 Matrices
- Hardware/Software Level Math Functions
- Smart Pointers
- Threads
- Mutexes
- Semaphores
- CPU information and features at runtime
- HTTP(S) Socket Layer
- TCP Socket
- UDP Socket
- COM (Serial) IO
- UTF_8/16/32 Character Encoding
- Spotify Integration
- Twitch Integration
- Json Parsing/Writing
- User Friendly HID Input
- Heap Garbage Collector
- Linked List
- Array
- Vector
- Asynchronous Task System
- URI Parsing
- USB (WIP)

### Supported Architectures
- AMD64
- AARCH64

### Supported Operating Systems
- Windows
- Linux

# Compiling/Building/Installing
## Linux
### Prerequisites
- **Arch Linux**: `sudo pacman -S gcc nasm cmake alsa-lib libxcb xcb-util-cursor`
- **Debian Linux**: `sudo apt install gcc nasm cmake libasound2-dev libxcb1-dev libxcb-xinput-dev libxcb-cursor-dev`

For building on the Raspberry Pi instead of the Netwide Assembler (NASM), GCC's Assembler is used.

### Building
`cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DLINUX_WINDOW_SYSTEM:STRING=XCB /path/to/source`

The `LINUX_WINDOW_SYSTEM` variable in the first step can be either `XCB` for the X Window System or `Wayland` for the
Wayland Window System. Wayland support is currently not fully supported yet, use only `XCB`.

### Compiling
`cmake --build /path/to/build --config Release`

### Installing
`sudo cmake --install /path/to/build --prefix /usr/local`

## Windows
### Prerequisites
- [Visual Studio Community](https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/community/)
- [Netwide Assembler](https://www.nasm.us/)
- [CMake](https://cmake.org/)
- [vcpkg](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/vcpkg/get_started/get-started?pivots=shell-cmd)

`vcpkg install` - Use this command in the directory where `vcpkg.json` is located to download/install dependencies.

### Building
`cmake -A x64 -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release /path/to/source`

### Compiling
`cmake --build /path/to/build --config Release`

### Installing
`cmake --install /path/to/build --prefix "C:/Program Files/EHS"`

This will require the terminal to be running in administrator mode.

# Simple Example
```cpp
#include <ehs/EHS.h>
#include <ehs/io/Console.h>

int main()
{
	// Simple identifying meta-data for the logger.
	ehs::Initialize("Simple Example App", "Release", {1, 0, 0});
	
	ehs::Console::Write_8("How old are you?"); // Write to the console in UTF_8 character encoding.
	
	ehs::Str_8 response = ehs::Console::Read_8(); // Read from the console in UTF_8 character encoding.
	
	if (!response.IsNum())
    {
		ehs::Console::Clear(); // Clear the console's buffer.
		return main(); // Repeat process if given response is not a number.
    }
	
	ehs::UInt_8 age = response.ToDecimal<ehs::UInt_8>(); // Converts the string number into a number based primitive.
	
	ehs::Console::Write("Your age is " + ehs::Str_8::FromNum(age) + "."); // Write the console with the age converted back to string.

    ehs::Uninitialize();

    return 0;
}
```