Gears is a header-only library that offers utilities for C++11 programmers. It is a more enhanced remake of the original library hosted at Bitbucket. The issue tracker will be used to keep track of things I plan to remake until I'm satisfied initially. Documentation can be found here

The tests obviously require compilation. Although not required to be built, it's a good idea to compile them anyway to see if the compiler can build gears. In order to compile gears, ninja is required. Python is used to generate the ninja file so just invoke:

./bootstrap.py --cxx=g++ && ninja

Sometimes a single header is a bit more helpful to have than a tightly coupled library directory. This makes dependency handling a lot easier to work with since you'd only need a single file to include and you'd be good to go. A python script has been provided for convenience to perform this exact use-case. In order to generate a single header file of a module just invoke it with the following:

./single.py io

This would generate the entire io module and all its dependencies into a single file for ease of use. You can see more options with ./single.py --help.

Currently Gears targets compilers that have good support of C++11 features, at the moment these include Clang 3.4 and GCC 4.8 or higher. Visual Studio 2013 could have worked in theory but it isn't technically supported and any bugs are a side effect.

No extraneous libraries are required to use Gears, only the standard library.