Ctpp

Ctpp is an open source and freely distributed command-line software implemented in C and designed from the ground up to provide Object Oriented (OO) extensions for the C language, as well as a C99-compatible C preprocessor for the ctalk language.

The software is compatible with the GNU cpp application and offers several C extensions, such as macro expansion in error and warning messages, built-in symbol definition for several command-line options, as well as saving expanded macros to files.

Ctalk can be used for network, GUI (Graphical User Interface), systems programs, client/server, or traditional object oriented simulations. The preprocessor can be downloaded separately.

Getting started with Ctpp

To install and use the Ctpp program on your GNU/Linux operating system, you will have to download the latest version of the project from Softoware or via it’s official website (see link at the end of the article), save it on a location of your choice, extract its contents using an archive manager utility, and open a terminal emulator application.

In the Terminal app, navigate to the location of the extracted archive files using the ‘cd’ command (e.g. cd /home/softoware/ctalk-0.0.55), run the ‘./configure --help’ command to view the available options for optimizing the program for a specific architecture or operating system.

Then, after a successful configuration, run the ‘make’ command to compile Ctpp and create a binary executable that can be easily installed system wide by running the ‘sudo make install’ command as a privileged user or the ‘make install’ command as root.

Under the hood

Taking a look under the hood of the Ctpp project, we can notice that the software has been written entirely in the C programming language. It is supported on all GNU/Linux operating systems, fully compatible with 64-bit and 32-bit instruction set architectures.

What is new in this release:

• This version adds a completely new configuration system for compatibilty with a wide variety of operating systems, machines, and GCC compiler versions, adds support for threaded libraries, and contains several minor reliability enhancements and bug fixes.

What is new in version 1.0.69:

• This version contains some minor compatibility and bug fixes.

What is new in version 1.0.68:

• This version features a new configuration setup which defines ctpp's built-in macros directly from the definitions used by the compiler's native preprocessor.

What is new in version 1.0.49:

• Added Linux UltraSPARC buildings.
• Fixed paste_va_arg to handle parentheses withing arguments.
• Added -Wmissing-args to handle different classes of symbols.

What is new in version 1.0.47:

• This release adds diagnostic messages for nested comments and macro argument syntax errors, additional replacement text size adjustments in all argument rescanning phases, and better error reporting compatibility while running as a subprocess of Ctalk.

What is new in version 1.0.46:

• This release contains several minor DJGPP compatibility updates.

What is new in version 1.0.45:

• This release adds several compatibility and bugfixes.

What is new in version 1.0.44:

• This release contains further compatibility fixes for recent GCC versions.

What is new in version 1.0.43:

• This release contains compatibility fixes for recent GCC versions.