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Remy van Elst edited this page Aug 27, 2021 · 8 revisions

Welcome to the axpbox wiki!

Getting started with OpenVMS & AXPbox

Other operating systems:

Technical details

Contributing

Here are a few guidelines when contributing code.

Platform support

The program from which AXPbox forked, es40 aimed to support a wide range of operating systems, including Windows and OpenVMS. It was developed around 2007/2008, which is reflected in the coding style.

AXPbox currently aims to target Unix-like systems in general (which are targeted by POCO POSIX support), but in the future this might change to either Qt Core 5 or pure C++11 (the second one would be preferred if its features prove to be sufficient).

Note: this specifies platforms AXPbox aims to support, not the ones which are known to work, for those see Host support.

  • Language standard: C++11 (for compatibility with platforms that lack modern compilers, please don't pull in C++17/20 or libraries like boost if not needed).
  • Compilers:
    • GCC
    • Clang
    • MSVC
  • Operating systems (with above compilers)
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • OS X
    • BSD

C++ functions are preferred over C style functions when contributing. (e.g. std:cerr instead of fprintf and ifstream instead of FILE*). This is in contrast with the code style of es40, which is written basically in "C with classes".

Rebase vs merge?

Code style

There is a clang-format file in the project, please use that.