Eina
Date
2008 (created)

Table of Contents

Introduction

The Eina library is a library which implements an API for data types in an efficient way. It also provides some useful tools like opening shared libraries, error management, type conversion, time accounting and memory pools.

This library is cross-platform and can be compiled and used on Linux, BSD, and Windows.

The data types available are (see Data Types):

The tools available are (see Tools):

  • Benchmark helper to write benchmarks.
  • Convert faster conversion from strings to integers, double, etc.
  • Counter measures number of calls and their time.
  • Cpu Cpu and architecture related helpers.
  • Error error identifiers.
  • File simple file list and path split.
  • Lazy allocator simple lazy allocator.
  • Log full-featured logging system.
  • Magic provides runtime type checking.
  • Memory Pool abstraction for various memory allocators.
  • Module lists, loads and share modules using Eina_Module standard.
  • Rectangle rectangle structure and standard manipulation methods.
  • Safety Checks extra checks that will report unexpected conditions and can be disabled at compile time.
  • String a set of functions that manages C strings.

How to compile

Eina is a library to which your app can link. The procedure for this is very simple. You simply have to compile your application with the appropriate compiler flags as outputted by the pkg-config script. For example:

Compiling C or C++ files into object files:

gcc -c -o main.o main.c `pkg-config --cflags eina`

Linking object files into a binary executable:

gcc -o my_application main.o `pkg-config --libs eina`

See pkgconfig

Next Steps

After you've understood what Eina is and installed it, you can now learn more about the the programming interface.

Recommended reading:

  • Data Types to find about implemented types and how to use them.
  • Tools to find about helper tools provided by eina.

Introductory Example

//Compile with:
//gcc -g eina_list_01.c -o eina_list_01 `pkg-config --cflags --libs eina`
#include <stdio.h>
#include <Eina.h>
int
main(int argc, char **argv)
{
(void)argc;
(void)argv;
Eina_List *list = NULL;
void *list_data;
list = eina_list_append(list, "tigh");
list = eina_list_append(list, "adar");
list = eina_list_append(list, "baltar");
list = eina_list_append(list, "roslin");
EINA_LIST_FOREACH(list, l, list_data)
printf("%s\n", (char*)list_data);
printf("\n");
l = eina_list_nth_list(list, 1);
list = eina_list_append_relative_list(list, "cain", l);
list = eina_list_append_relative(list, "zarek", "cain");
list = eina_list_prepend(list, "adama");
list = eina_list_prepend_relative(list, "gaeta", "cain");
list = eina_list_prepend_relative_list(list, "lampkin", l);
EINA_LIST_FOREACH(list, l, list_data)
printf("%s\n", (char*)list_data);
return 0;
}

More examples can be found at Eina Examples.