openE57 is a forked version of the original LibE57 (http://www.libe57.org) project, with the intent to refine and optimize the source code in a modern C++ idiomatic way and remove unnecessary dependencies (e.g. Boost) in favour of the C++ Standard Library.

The library is compiled as C++17, since some of following language intrinsics and libraries are used:

• constexpr values
• enum classes
• random (replaces boost::uuid)
• filesystem (replaces boost::filesystem)
• thread (replaces boost::thread)
• memory (replaces boost::shared_ptr and std::auto_ptr)

At the current state, Boost is still required when building the tools as in the original source code, but it will be completely removed with the release 2.0.0.

You need the following tools to build this library:

• A C++17 compiler (MSVC 2017+, gcc 8+, clang 8+)
• A recent version of CMake (3.15+)
• A recent version of conan (2.0+)

There are two ways to build and use openE57: building it as a conan package or as a standard CMake project. The dependencies are now managed with conan and integrated in CMake, without the need of compiling the required libraries by yourself.

The following instructions will guide you to build openE57 as a local conan package (actually it is being submitted as official conan recipe in the Conan Center), so it can be used it further in other projects.

Available conan options are the following ones:

• with_tools - disabled by default
• shared - disabled by default (not supported at the moment - no symbol is exported yet)
• fPIC - enabled by default, activates the -fPIC flag on gcc/clang compilers on Linux/Mac

Platform independent:

git clone https://github.com/openE57/openE57.git
cd open57
conan create . --build=missing

The following instructions will guide you to build openE57 as a standard CMake Project, downloading the external dependencies with conan, but managing all the settings with CMake.

Available CMake Options are:

• BUILD_DOCS - builds the Doxygen documentation (requires Doxygen and Graphviz)
• BUILD_EXAMPLES - builds the API examples
• BUILD_TOOLS - builds the binary tools to validate and dump E57 files
• BUILD_TESTS - builds tests
• BUILD_SHARED_LIBS - actually unsupported (missing exported symbols)
• BUILD_WITH_MT - instructs CMake to set the correct CMAKE_MSVC_RUNTIME_LIBRARY flag for Visual Studio

Building with Position indipendent code on Unix can be activated with the option CMAKE_POSITION_INDEPENDENT_CODE.

git clone https://github.com/openE57/openE57.git
cd open57
mkdir build && cd build
conan install --output-folder . --build=missing -s compiler.cppstd=17 -o with_tests=True -o with_tools=True .. 
cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DBUILD_TESTS=ON -DBUILD_TOOLS=ON
cmake --build . --config Release --target install

git clone https://github.com/openE57/openE57.git
cd open57
md build && cd build
conan install --output-folder . --build=missing -s compiler.cppstd=17 -o with_tests=True -o with_tools=True .. 
cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DBUILD_WITH_MT=ON -DBUILD_TESTS=ON -DBUILD_TOOLS=ON
cmake --build . --config Release --target install

The Project offers the possibility to run the auto-formatter (clang-format) on the sources. As prerequisite, you need to install clang-format on your machine and then run the following cmake target:

cmake --build . --target clangformat

It's also possible to build the documentation for the API (still largely outdated), using Doxygen and Graphviz. You'll have to install the required packages for your distribution in order to generate proper documentation files.

To enerate the documentation, configure the project like:

cmake .. -DBUILD_DOCS=ON
cmake --build . --target doxygen