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--------------------- --- Description --- The bfVFS library allows an application to link or mount many different directories from the file system, thus creating a unified application-level Virtual File System. Additionally, file archives can be used as read-only locations in the VFS. For now only uncompressed 7-zip ans SLF archives are supported. The library supports multiple platforms and was tested under Windows with MSVC 2008 and 2010, MinGW and Linux gcc. --------------- --- Build --- Instead of system-dependant project or makefiles, bfVFS uses the system- independant CMake for its configuration (see www.cmake.org). To compile the source code you can start the CMake GUI (consult the CMake documentation for that) and choose the source and destination directories. Then, in multiple configure runs, you can setup the build configuration and finally generate the system dependant project or makefiles. Both in-source and out-of-source builds are supported. You can select the following options: BUILD_BFVFS_SHARED - creates a DLL or a shared library when selected BFVFS_WITH_7ZIP - enables support for 7-zip archives, also compiles the 7z library itself (either as static or shared library) BFVFS_WITH_SLF - enables SLF support ** advanced options ** BFVFS_7ZIP_MT - compiles the 7-zip library with multithreading support (Windows only) BFVFS_DEBUG_CMAKE - prints configuration results NOTE: Although in the configuration phase the prefix BFVFS is used, the code itself uses the shorter VFS_ or vfs_ or vfs:: prefix/namespace. If you can think of situations where this can lead to a conflict with other libraries, please inform me about it. ---------------------------- --- External libraries --- The bfVFS uses two external libraries, "utfcpp" (http://utfcpp.sourceforge.net/) and "7-zip" (http://www.7-zip.org/). utfcpp is used for unicode strings, as C++ does not (yet) support then natively, and its use is mandatory. The 7-zip library is only used for the archive format, compression is not supported (yet). If you don't want or cannot use the 7-zip library code you can simple deactivate it in the CMake configuration or remove it from source tree (see ext/7z). The 7-zip library is the, slightly modified, C-code portion from the LZMA SDK. The bfVFS library uses the 7-zip library to read-in 7z archives. Creating uncompressed 7z archives is also suppored, but self implemented. As a second archive format the SLF format is supported (which probably stands for SirTech Library Format). This is for historical reasons of the bfVFS library. ------------------ --- Feedback --- Contact me under john.bf.smith at googlemail.com or go to http://sourceforge.net/projects/bfvfs/