A simple Bencode library, written in modern C++
To demonstrate this, build and execute benc-cli, which displays a help message:
Usage: benc-cli [OPTIONS] input_text
Options:
-i FILE use input file, instead of STDIN
-o FILE use output file, instead of STDOUT
-r FILE give input text via terminal/STDIN
For example, to decode the example found in the project root directory:
% cat testinput.txt
i32e
% ./build/bin/benc-cli -i testinput.txt
32
To use this library in a C++ application, please refer to the header benc.hpp.
The library and program can be build using CMake and its supported outputs. From the project root directory, this looks like:
mkdir build && cd build
cmake ..
cmake --build .
Compilation should work out-of-the-box on POSIX-compatible systems. On Windows, you must ensure the getopt library exists to build the demo; you can grab it using vcpkg.