Is there any good boost::filesystem alternative?

c++ boost filesystems

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Solution 1

POCO has similar functionality which you can find under Foundation/FileSystem.

Solution 2

There is at least one more solution worth mentioning - STLSoft, a set of BSD-like licensed libraries, contains a cross-platform wrapper under Windows & Unix native filesystem APIs - PlatformSTL project. The benefit in comparison with boost::filesystem is no need to build anything, the whole library is header-only, you can simply include it in your project. The bad side is lack of documentation though, I spent quite some time to figure out how to use it.

Solution 3

What about QT's QFileSystemModel or QFSFileEngine?

Solution 4

You can find it in the SSVUtils library: https://github.com/SuperV1234/SSVUtils

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Damian

Updated on February 08, 2020

Comments

Damian about 4 years

Is there any portable c++ library to work with the filesystem?

I know about boost::filesystem, but I need to know if there is any other.

Thanks!
- J T about 13 years
  
  Are you having problems with boost?
- Damian about 13 years
  
  I'd like something that's not required to be built separately from your project. I'm looking for a simple, little library that lets me add the files to my ide project and just compile it with the rest of the code.
- Sam Miller about 13 years
  
  it doesn't get much simpler than apt-get install boost-devel or yum install boost-devel. If you're on Windows, BoostPro has installers.
- Lightness Races in Orbit about 9 years
  
  Why are you compiling code on your iphone? :/
- carlosvin almost 7 years
  
  FYK: boost::filesystem has been merged to C++17. You can start using it as experimental feature, I wrote an example at carlosvin.github.io/posts/recursive-directory-iterator
UmmaGumma about 13 years

You have introduced me with very nice C++ library. Thanks and +1.
Jeremy Sandell about 13 years

+1 for POCO. While the entire library is pretty huge, you can just link to the portion you need to use (and whatever its dependencies are, if any).
Vortico over 10 years

While POCO is huge compared to most other C++ libraries, it is dwarfed by Boost's ~100MB package.
void-pointer over 10 years

The last time I tried, STLSoft did not compile on OS X. See my question here for more details. The error generated by the library read error: #error Operating system not discriminated. Only UNIX and Windows are currently recognised by PlatformSTL, which is not a good sign.
Dmitry over 10 years

That's news for me, never tried it on OS X. Really doesn't work. The reason seems to be that OS X does not provide predefined UNIX (or unix, __unix__, __unix) macro. I'm not sure it would work but you can try to add the option for PLATFORMSTL_OS_IS_UNIX macro in platrofmstl.h: #if defined(unix) || \ defined(UNIX) || \ defined(__unix__) || \ defined(__unix) || \ defined(__MACH__) # define PLATFORMSTL_OS_IS_UNIX
void-pointer over 10 years

Thanks for the information---I just accepted your answer to my question. I think I remember manually defining #platform PLATFORM_OS_IS_UNIX or otherwise trying to work around the error, but came across more errors using the version of STLSoft that I used when I posted that question. I suppose that it is compatible with OS X now.
ruipacheco over 9 years

Why are there downloads for each platform? Shouldn't this abstract away each platform's specific features?