CppRoaring4VS

C++ Roaring bitmaps for microsoft Visual Studio 2015 compiled with clang.

Introduction

A C++ wrapper around the CRoaring project to enable compilation of CRoaring with Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 with clang.

Objective

The primary goal of the CRoaringVS is to provide a static library that can be used in Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 compiled projects.

Requirements

• The library requires Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 update 3 with clang installed. It is only tested on Windows 7.

Known shortcomings

• Doesn't work yet due to an unresolved bug resulting in the test failing with error message: The Block at 0x.... was allocated by aligned routines, use _aligned_free().
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 is not fully supporting intel intrinsics. A bug has been reported [here:] (https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/3102596/clang-c2-intel-intrinsics-support-for-clang)

Project structure

• Sources: The original amalgamated CRoaring source files can be found in the directory src/croaring. The c++ header file for this library in the directory inc. The c++ implementation file for this library in the directory src. The source file for the test is in the directory tst.
• Project files: The Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 solution file is available in the directory msv. This solution contains the following 2 projects each in its own subdirectory: CRoaringVSLib (to build the library), CRoaringVSTest (to test the CRoaringVSLib library).
• Library files The static .lib files are in the lib directory.