See the documentation in the doc/ directory for information about how to use the ctemplate library.

COMPILING

To compile test applications with these classes, run ./configure followed by make. To install these header files on your system, run 'make install'. (On Windows, the instructions are different; see README.windows.) See INSTALL for more details.

This code should work on any modern C++ system. It has been tested on Linux (Ubuntu, Fedora, RedHat), Solaris 10 x86, FreeBSD 6.0, OS X 10.3 and 10.4, and Windows under both VC++7 and VC++8.

There are a few Windows-specific details; see README.windows for more information.

CTEMPLATE AND THREADS

The ctemplate library has thread support, so it works properly in a threaded environment. For this to work, if you link libraries with -lctemplate you may find you also need to add -pthread (or, on some systems, -pthreads, and on others, -lpthread) to get the library to compile. If you leave out the -pthread, you'll see errors like this:

symbol lookup error: /usr/local/lib/libctemplate.so.0: undefined symbol: pthread_rwlock_init

If your code isn't multi-threaded, you can instead use the ctemplate_nothread library: -lctemplate_nothreads

To summarize, there are two ways to link in ctemlpate in non-threaded applications. For instance: 1) gcc -o my_app my_app.o -lctemplate -pthread 2) gcc -o my_app my_app.o -lctemplate_nothreads

If your application uses threads, you should use form (1).