Autowiring is an inversion-of-control framework for C++11. It provides a declarative way to manage resources through dependency injection. Instead of explicitly instantiating dependencies, simply declare what you need and Autowiring will manage object creation and wiring.

Autowiring project structure is specified with CMake. Simply point CMake to the root project directory and generate your desired project file. While Autowiring is written using C++11 features, it supports linking the non-C++11 STL. The C++11/ directory provides boost shims for missing C++11 library features.

Mac dependencies are installed with port or brew. If you have port installed, this will build the project:

git clone [email protected]:leapmotion/autowiring.git
cd autowiring
sudo port install boost cmake
cmake .
make
make test
sudo make install

The commands for Unix are different depending on what package manager you're using. Ubuntu's package manager is apt-get, OpenSUSE uses zypper, and CentOS systems use yum. The major apparent difference to the user will be that the package to install has a different name. For Ubuntu, do this:

git clone [email protected]:leapmotion/autowiring.git
cd autowiring
sudo apt-get install libboost-dev cmake
cmake .
make
make test
sudo make install

Unfortunately, Windows doesn't have any sort of nifty package manager, and this requires that you download and install the boost dependency by hand. Once you've followed the instructions for installing boost as indicated here you will need to set BOOST_ROOT during cmake configuration time to point to the path where boost was built. Here's the magic incantation required, assuming you're running from a MinGW terminal (comes for free with Git Extensions. You're also going to need a copy of Visual Studio 2012 or better. Other build systems will probably work, but they aren't officially supported here.

git clone [email protected]:leapmotion/autowiring.git
cd autowiring
cmake . -DBOOST_ROOT:Path=<path/to/boost/with/forward/slashes>

At this point, you'll have a solution file in your root directory called "Autowiring.sln", if you run Visual Studio as an adminstrator and build the INSTALL target then Autowiring will be installed on your system. As with the other platforms, CMake will be able to find autowiring when it's installed this way via the find_package command.

Autowiring uses CPack, which knows how to use rpm/deb/wix/dragndrop, and will target the correct version depending on which system you're on. To build the installer on Windows, you must first download the wix toolset. Other CMake installations on the current system will be able to find Autowiring once the package is installed by this means.

Generally speaking, there is not really much reason to build an installer yourself unless you're testing out the bleeding edge. The releases page lists the officially supported Autowiring releases.