xpack v0.1.7

The xPack tools collection

A npm package with the xPack command line tools.

xPacks overview

xPacks are general purpose software C/C++ packages, intended to enhance code sharing and reusing during the development of C/C++ libraries and applications, much the same as npm modules do so nicely in the JavaScript ecosystem.

Purpose

This package does not provides any functionality in itself, it is mainly a convenient way to installs all tools in the xPack collection in a single command.

Prerequisites

If this is your first encounter with npm, you need to install the node.js JavScript run-time. The process is straighforward and does not polute the system locations significantly; just pick the current version, download the package suitable for your platform and install it as usual. The result is a binary program called node that can be used to execute JavaScript code from the terminal, and a link called npm, pointing to the npm-cli.js script, which is part of the node module that implements the npm functionality. On Windows, it is recommended to first install the Git for Windows package.

Easy install

The module is available as xpack from the public repository; with npm already available, installing xpack is quite easy:

$ sudo npm install xpack --global

On Windows, global packages are installed in the user home folder, and do not require sudo.

The module provides the xPack executables, which is the reason to install it globally.

The development repository is available from the GitHub xpack/xpack-js project.

To remove xmake, the command is similar:

$ sudo npm uninstall xmake --global

(On Windows sudo is not required`).

License

The original content is released under the MIT License, with all rights reserved to Liviu Ionescu.

Note

The xPack tools are currently under development. Functional versions will be available soon.