How to create directories with SDL in a portable manner?

SDL Development
1

Hello,

I would like to create/delete directories from my SDL app.
Does SDL or any additionnal lib provides portable way to deals with
directories?

2

SDL does not cover filesystem management. I wrote a C++ wrapper for the C
headers <sys/stat.h> and <dirent.h>, called goodIO, that you might find
useful:
http://code.bluedinosaurs.com/c++.html

The functions you want are ioNewDir, ioDelete, and ioList. You probably
have to do recursive deletion yourself in order to delete a directory (I
guess that’s something to add to goodIO). You can check out the source for
those functions to see how to use stat, mkdir, unlink/remove, and
opendir/readdir as well.

Jonny DOn Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 9:19 AM, AKHRES Nader <nader.akhres at laposte.net>wrote:

Hello,

I would like to create/delete directories from my SDL app.
Does SDL or any additionnal lib provides portable way to deals with
directories?

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3

Sounds great.
Does it work on windows system?

Le 20:59, Jonathan Dearborn a ?crit :> SDL does not cover filesystem management. I wrote a C++ wrapper for

the C headers <sys/stat.h> and <dirent.h>, called goodIO, that you
might find useful:
http://code.bluedinosaurs.com/c++.html

The functions you want are ioNewDir, ioDelete, and ioList. You
probably have to do recursive deletion yourself in order to delete a
directory (I guess that’s something to add to goodIO). You can check
out the source for those functions to see how to use stat, mkdir,
unlink/remove, and opendir/readdir as well.

Jonny D

On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 9:19 AM, AKHRES Nader <@AKHRES_Nader mailto:AKHRES_Nader> wrote:

Hello,

I would like to create/delete directories from my SDL app.
Does SDL or any additionnal lib provides portable way to deals
with directories?


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4

You could also use Boost Filesystem.

http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_42_0/libs/filesystem/doc/index.htm----
Daniel Camozzato

On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 12:56 PM, AKHRES Nader <nader.akhres at laposte.net>wrote:

Sounds great.
Does it work on windows system?

Le 20:59, Jonathan Dearborn a ?crit :

SDL does not cover filesystem management. I wrote a C++ wrapper for the C
headers <sys/stat.h> and <dirent.h>, called goodIO, that you might find
useful:
http://code.bluedinosaurs.com/c++.html

The functions you want are ioNewDir, ioDelete, and ioList. You probably
have to do recursive deletion yourself in order to delete a directory (I
guess that’s something to add to goodIO). You can check out the source for
those functions to see how to use stat, mkdir, unlink/remove, and
opendir/readdir as well.

Jonny D

On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 9:19 AM, AKHRES Nader <nader.akhres at laposte.net>wrote:

Hello,

I would like to create/delete directories from my SDL app.
Does SDL or any additionnal lib provides portable way to deals with
directories?

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SDL at lists.libsdl.org
http://lists.libsdl.org/listinfo.cgi/sdl-libsdl.org

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5

thanks. But do I need to get all boost lib (too big) or just filesystem
module?

Le 20:59, Daniel Camozzato a ?crit :> You could also use Boost Filesystem.

http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_42_0/libs/filesystem/doc/index.htm

Daniel Camozzato

On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 12:56 PM, AKHRES Nader <@AKHRES_Nader mailto:AKHRES_Nader> wrote:

Sounds great.
Does it work on windows system?

Le 20:59, Jonathan Dearborn a ?crit :

SDL does not cover filesystem management.  I wrote a C++ wrapper
for the C headers <sys/stat.h> and <dirent.h>, called goodIO,
that you might find useful:
http://code.bluedinosaurs.com/c++.html

The functions you want are ioNewDir, ioDelete, and ioList.  You
probably have to do recursive deletion yourself in order to
delete a directory (I guess that's something to add to goodIO).
 You can check out the source for those functions to see how to
use stat, mkdir, unlink/remove, and opendir/readdir as well.

Jonny D


On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 9:19 AM, AKHRES Nader <@AKHRES_Nader <mailto:@AKHRES_Nader>> wrote:

    Hello,

    I would like to create/delete directories from my SDL app.
    Does SDL or any additionnal lib provides portable way to
    deals with directories?


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6

You will have to download the whole Boost package, but you can use the
filesystem library by itself. The filesystem library is one of the few
libraries that need to be compiled (most are header-only). If you’re using
Windows + Visual Studio, there are instructions to get it working
(look under section 5.2):

http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_42_0/more/getting_started/windows.html----
Daniel Camozzato

On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 4:57 AM, AKHRES Nader <nader.akhres at laposte.net>wrote:

thanks. But do I need to get all boost lib (too big) or just filesystem
module?

Le 20:59, Daniel Camozzato a ?crit :

You could also use Boost Filesystem.

http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_42_0/libs/filesystem/doc/index.htm

Daniel Camozzato

On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 12:56 PM, AKHRES Nader <nader.akhres at laposte.net>wrote:

Sounds great.
Does it work on windows system?

Le 20:59, Jonathan Dearborn a ?crit :

SDL does not cover filesystem management. I wrote a C++ wrapper for the C
headers <sys/stat.h> and <dirent.h>, called goodIO, that you might find
useful:
http://code.bluedinosaurs.com/c++.html

The functions you want are ioNewDir, ioDelete, and ioList. You probably
have to do recursive deletion yourself in order to delete a directory (I
guess that’s something to add to goodIO). You can check out the source for
those functions to see how to use stat, mkdir, unlink/remove, and
opendir/readdir as well.

Jonny D

On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 9:19 AM, AKHRES Nader <nader.akhres at laposte.net>wrote:

Hello,

I would like to create/delete directories from my SDL app.
Does SDL or any additionnal lib provides portable way to deals with
directories?

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