What is it?

CGUL (formerly Jatta) is a General Utility Library for C++. CGUL is partially a thin wrapper between popular C libraries, but also uses and abuses the C++ syntax to extend the language. CGUL's goal is to be compliant with C++ standards instead of C standards. CGUL takes an object-oriented approach to common problems. Error checking occurs through exceptions and classes are RAII compliant. No error goes unchecked.

Features

• Cross-platform
• Windows is mostly supported through MinGW
• Tested with Mac OS X 10.6
• Linux requires X11 for windows and ALSA for audio (common in most distros)
• CMake build system
• Supports most CMake generators on all supported platforms
• Powerful Assimp library wrapper to load in 3D models and scenes
• File system
• Font loading via FreeType
• Simplified image loading/saving
• Bitmap
• PNG with libpng
• Jpeg with libjpeg
• DDS
• Mathematics library
• Matrices, quaternions, and vectors for 3D worlds
• Linear congruential generator (RNG)
• Probability distributions
• Many common mathematic functions
• Simplified networking
• TCP Sockets
• UDP Sockets
• DNS Lookup
• SSL/TLS Support via OpenSSL
• Query local network interfaces
• Object oriented OpenGL wrapper
• Window system on Windows (WinAPI), MacOS (Cocoa) and Linux (X11)
• Utf-8 everywhere
• Easy to use PortAudio wrapper
• A very liberal license*

* CGUL and the libraries required to build CGUL are released under very unrestricting licenses for your convenience and freedom as a developer. Please consider uprooting all your improvements to the respective developers. Thanks!

Ubuntu Packages

• libx11-dev (for x11 windows)
• libgl1-mesa-dev (for opengl)
• libasound2-dev (for audio)