libdisplaydevice

C++ library to modify display devices.

Overview

ℹ️ About

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libdisplaydevice is a library that provides a common interface for interacting with display devices. It is intended to be used by applications that need to interact with displays, such as screen capture software, remote desktop software, and video players.

Windows and macOS are currently supported. Support for Linux is planned for the future.

🛠️ Build

Clone

Ensure git is installed and run the following:

git clone https://github.com/lizardbyte/libdisplaydevice.git --recurse-submodules
cd libdisplaydevice
mkdir -p build

Windows

First, you need to install MSYS2.

For AMD64 startup "MSYS2 UCRT64" (or for ARM64 startup "MSYS2 CLANGARM64") then execute the following commands.

Update all packages

pacman -Syu

Set toolchain variable

For UCRT64:

export TOOLCHAIN="ucrt-x86_64"

For CLANGARM64:

export TOOLCHAIN="clang-aarch64"

Install dependencies

dependencies=(
  "doxygen"
  "mingw-w64-${TOOLCHAIN}-boost"
  "mingw-w64-${TOOLCHAIN}-cmake"
  "mingw-w64-${TOOLCHAIN}-graphviz"
  "mingw-w64-${TOOLCHAIN}-ninja"
  "mingw-w64-${TOOLCHAIN}-nlohmann-json"
  "mingw-w64-${TOOLCHAIN}-nodejs"
  "mingw-w64-${TOOLCHAIN}-toolchain"
)
pacman -S "${dependencies[@]}"

Build

cmake -G Ninja -B build -S .
ninja -C build

Test

./build/tests/test_libdisplaydevice

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