Installation

tweedledum is a header-only C++-17 library. Just add the include directory of tweeldedum to your include directories, and you can integrate it into your source files using

#include <tweedledum/tweedledum.hpp>

Alpha Disclaimer

tweedledum is in version Alpha. Hence, the software is still under active development and not feature complete, meaning the API is subject to big changes. This is released for developers or users who are comfortable living on the absolute bleeding edge.

Requirements

We tested building tweedledum on Mac OS and Linux using:

  • Clang 6.0.0

  • Clang 7.0.0

  • GCC 7.3.0

  • GCC 8.1.0.

If you experience that the system compiler does not suffice the requirements, you can manually pass a compiler to CMake using:

cmake -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=/path/to/c++-compiler ..

Building the examples

The included CMake build script can be used to build the tweedledum library examples on a wide range of platforms. CMake is freely available for download from http://www.cmake.org/download/.

CMake works by generating native makefiles or project files that can be used in the compiler environment of your choice. The typical workflow starts with:

mkdir build      # Create a directory to hold the build output.
cd build

To build the examples set the TWEEDLEDUM_EXAMPLES CMake variable to TRUE:

cmake -DTWEEDLEDUM_EXAMPLES=TRUE <path/to/tweedledum>

where <path/to/tweedledum> is a path to the tweedledum repository.

If you are on a *nix system, you should now see a Makefile in the current directory. Now you can build the library by running make.

All *.cpp files in the examples/ directory will be compiled to its own executable which will have the same name. For example, the file examples/hello_world.cpp will generate the executable hello_world.

Once the examples have been built you can invoke ./examples/<name> to run it:

./examples/hello_world

Building the documentation

To build the documentation you need the following software installed on your system:

First generate makefiles or project files using CMake as described in the previous section. Then compile the doc target/project, for example:

make doc

This will generate the HTML documentation in doc/html.