oxfuse 0.4.4

This project is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

Official repositories:

• https://codeberg.org/os-18/oxfuse
• https://gitlab.com/os-18/oxfuse

Keywords: dlang, d, fuse, libfuse, libfuse3, binding, wrapper, filesystem.

About

OXFuse (Object-oriented eXtension for FUSE) is a D language binding for libfuse3, allowing developers to create user-space filesystems for Linux with an object-oriented interface.

Features

• To create your own file system, inherit from the oxfuse.FileSystem class and override any methods representing file operations.
• This library allows you to use forty operations from libfuse (all except write_buf()/read_buf()).
• The behavior of all non-overloaded functions is determined by FUSE and the OS kernel.
• The library does not provide bindings for functions that parse command-line arguments. Parsing is proposed to be done using the D language tools.
• Errors with accompanying messages and errno are represented by FuseException and the fe() function.
• The original library broke backward compatibility for the fuse_config and fuse_file_info structures. Our library takes into account the current system version of libfuse3. All structures in the final build have the correct versions.
• At present, only the high-level part has been ported; the low-level part is not available.

Documentation

https://os-18.codeberg.page/oxfuse/

The "examples/" directory contains several different implementations of file systems.

Useful information is also available here: https://github.com/libfuse/libfuse/wiki.

Ready-made packages

See: Download Page of OS-18

The page contains information about installing several packages, including OXFuse.

Build from source

Preparing

You must have make and at least one of these compilers:

• Digital Mars D Compiler
• LLVM D Compiler
• GNU D Compiler

Also the library needs libfuse3.

Simple building and installing

Creating static and dynamic libraries for the ldc2 compiler (by default):

make

Installation (root privileges may be required):

make install

The Makefile contains variables:

• DESTDIR specifies the root directory for installing (empty, by default);
• PREFIX points to the base directory like usr/local or usr.

The installation directory is defined as $(DESTDIR)/$(PREFIX) in the Makefile.

You can install the library files in any directory; example for $HOME/.local:

make install DESTDIR=$HOME PREFIX=.local

Uninstall:

make uninstall

If the project was installed in a non-default location, use the corresponding paths:

make uninstall DESTDIR=$HOME PREFIX=.local

Other compilers

Compiler by default is ldc2. You can choose other compiler (for example, gdc):

make DC=gdc

Installing:

make install DC=gdc

Uninstalling:

make uninstall DC=gdc

Feedback

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