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The Treasure Box Library

Introduction

TBOX is a glib-like cross-platform C library that is simple to use yet powerful in nature.

The project focuses on making C development easier and provides many modules (.e.g stream, asio, regex, container, algorithm ...), so that any developer can quickly pick it up and enjoy the productivity boost when developing in C language.

It supports the following platforms:

• Windows
• Macosx
• Linux
• Android
• iOS

And it provides many compiling options using xmake:

• Release: Disable debug information, assertion, memory checking and enable optimization.
• Debug: Enable debug information, assertion, memory checking and disable optimization.
• Small: Disable all extensional modules and enable space optimization.
• Micro: compiling micro library (~64K) for the embed system.

If you want to know more, please refer to:

• Documents
• Github
• HomePage

Features

Stream

• Supports file, data, http and socket source
• Supports the stream filter for gzip, charset and...
• Implements stream transfer
• Implements the static buffer stream for parsing data
• Supports coroutine and implements asynchronous operation

Coroutine

• Provides high-performance coroutine switch(refer to reports)
• Supports arm, arm64, x86, x86_64 ..
• Provides channel interfaces
• Provides semaphore and lock interfaces
• Supports io socket and stream operation in coroutine
• Provides some io servers (http ..) using coroutine
• Provides stackfull and stackless coroutines

Database

• Supports mysql and sqlite3 database and enumerates data using the iterator mode

Xml

• Supports DOM and SAX mode and Supports xpath

Serialization

• Supports xml, json, bplist, xplist, binary formats

Memory

• Implements some memory pools for optimizing memory
• Supports fast memory error detecting. it can detect the following types of bugs for the debug mode:
  • out-of-bounds accesses to heap and globals
  • use-after-free
  • double-free, invalid free
  • memory leaks

Container

• Implements hash table, single list, double list, vector, stack, queue and min/max heap. Supports iterator mode for algorithm

Algorithm

• Uses the iterator mode
• Implements find, binary find and reverse find algorithm
• Implements sort, bubble sort, quick sort, heap sort and insert sort algorithm
• Implements count, walk items, reverse walk items, for_all and rfor_all

Network

• Implements dns(cached)
• Implements ssl(openssl, polarssl, mbedtls)
• Implements http
• Implements cookies
• Supports ipv4, ipv6
• Supports coroutine

Platform

• Implements timer, fast and low precision timer
• Implements atomic and atomic64 operation
• Implements spinlock, mutex, event, semaphore, thread and thread pool
• Implements file, socket operation
• Implements poller using epoll, poll, select, kqueue ...
• Implements switch context interfaces for coroutine

Charset

• Supports utf8, utf16, gbk, gb2312, uc2 and uc4
• Supports big endian and little endian mode

Zip

• Supports gzip, zlibraw, zlib formats using the zlib library if exists
• Implements lzsw, lz77 and rlc algorithm

Utils

• Implements base32, base64 encoder and decoder
• Implements assert and trace output for the debug mode
• Implements bits operation for parsing u8, u16, u32, u64 data

Math

• Implements random generator
• Implements fast fixed-point calculation, Supports 6-bits, 16-bits, 30-bits fixed-point number

Libc

• Implements lightweight libc library interfaces, the interface name contains tb_xxx prefix for avoiding conflict
• Implements strixxx strrxxx wcsixxx wcsrxxx interface extension
• Optimizes some frequently-used interface, .e.g. memset, memcpy, strcpy ...
• Implements memset_u16, memset_u32, memset_u64 extension interfaces

Libm

• Implements lightweight libm library interfaces, the interface name contains tb_xxx prefix for avoiding conflict
• Supports float and double type

Regex

• Supports match and replace
• Supports global/multiline/caseless mode
• Uses pcre, pcre2 and posix regex modules

Hash

• Implements crc32, adler32, md5 and sha1 hash algorithm
• Implements some string hash algorithms (.e.g bkdr, fnv32, fnv64, sdbm, djb2, rshash, aphash ...)
• Implements uuid generator