These compilers and OSs are regularly tested by CI:

GCC on Linux
Clang on Linux
Xcode on Mac OS
Visual Studio on Windows

Other compilers, architectures and OSs may work, but are not tested regularly. You will need a working Filesystem TS implementation in your STL, and at least C++ 14.

LLFIO has your choice of header-only, static library, and shared library build modes. Note that on Microsoft Windows, the default header only configuration is unsafe to use outside of toy projects. You will get warnings of the form:

warning : LLFIO_HEADERS_ONLY=1, LLFIO_EXPERIMENTAL_STATUS_CODE=0 and NTKERNEL_ERROR_CATEGORY_INLINE=1 on Windows, this can produce unreliable binaries where semantic comparisons of error codes randomly fail!

... and ...

Defining custom error code category ntkernel_category() via header only form is unreliable! Semantic comparisons will break! Define NTKERNEL_ERROR_CATEGORY_INLINE to 0 and only ever link in ntkernel_category() from a prebuilt shared library to avoid this problem.

The cause is that <system_error> has a design flaw where custom error code categories are unsafe when shared libraries are in use.

You have one of three choices here: (i) Use experimental SG14 status_code which doesn't have this problem (define LLFIO_EXPERIMENTAL_STATUS_CODE=1) (ii) Use the NT kernel error category as a shared library (see its documentation) (iii) Don't use header only LLFIO on Windows (see below).

Install from the vcpkg package manager

This is particularly easy, and works on Mac OS, Linux and Microsoft Windows:

vcpkg install llfio

LLFIO appears at <llfio/llfio.hpp>.

Prebuilt binaries

It is faster to build programs using LLFIO if you don't use a header only build. In this situation, define LLFIO_HEADERS_ONLY=0, and choose one of LLFIO_DYN_LINK or LLFIO_STATIC_LINK depending on whether you are using the prebuilt shared or static libraries respectively.

You can find prebuilt binaries for Mac OS, Ubuntu and Microsoft Windows at https://github.com/ned14/llfio/releases. Choose a release, and under the Assets you will find the prebuilt binaries packages which include headers.

Get a copy of the source

Clone from the GitHub repository:

git config --system core.longpaths true
git clone --recursive https://github.com/ned14/llfio.git
cd llfio

The first command is relevant so deeply nested paths on Windows will work when cloning the repository and submodules. It may require elevated privileges, but you can also use git config --global core.longpaths true instead.

If you already cloned before reading this

If you had already cloned this repository, but didn't use the --recursive switch, you can simply run the following command from inside the work tree:

git submodule update --init --recursive

Build static libraries from source

You will need CMake installed, v3.9 or better. It is important to do an out-of-tree build, because the build will otherwise fail.

If you want C++ Coroutines support, you will need a C++ Coroutines supporting compiler. It should get automatically discovered and detected.

To build and test on POSIX (make, ninja etc):

mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
cmake --build . --parallel
ctest -R llfio_sl

To build and test on Windows or Mac OS (Visual Studio, XCode etc):

mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -G<your generator here>
cmake --build . --parallel --config Release
ctest -C Release -R llfio_sl

Build shared libraries from source

You will need CMake installed, v3.9 or better. It is important to do an out-of-tree build, because the build will otherwise fail.

To build and test on POSIX (make, ninja etc):

mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
cmake --build . --parallel -- _dl
ctest -R llfio_dl

To build and test on Windows or Mac OS (Visual Studio, XCode etc):

mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -G<your generator here>
cmake --build . --parallel --config Release --target _dl
ctest -C Release -R llfio_dl

Installing libraries from source

If you add llfio as a subdirectory in cmake (add_subdirectory()), you can link to its exported targets and everything 'just works'. The dependencies quickcpplib and outcome will be automatically downloaded into the build directory and used.

If you really want to install llfio into a directory, you can also:

git config --system core.longpaths true
 
git clone --recursive https://github.com/ned14/quickcpplib.git
cd quickcpplib
mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local
cmake --build . --parallel
cmake --build . --target install
cd ../..
 
git clone --recursive https://github.com/ned14/outcome.git
cd outcome
mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local
cmake --build . --parallel
cmake --build . --target install
cd ../..
 
git clone --recursive https://github.com/ned14/llfio.git
cd llfio
mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local
cmake --build . --parallel -- _dl _sl _hl
cmake --build . --target install
cd ../..

If you chose a different CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX then it will need to be supplied to the compiler:

cd example

g++ -std=c++17 -o test map_file.cpp -I/Users/ned/testinstall/inst/include

The above also works on Microsoft Windows, but paths etc will need to be adjusted.