C++11 concurrency library (cppc_lib)

A C++11 concurrency library which ports primitives available in later language standards.

Why?

There are alternative implementations which I strongly suggest the reader to use. Even though this library is covered by extensive tests, its main purpose was for me to learn:

• standard library facilities (and implementing the missing ones)
• mutual exclusion primitives and how to use them to implement more advanced patterns
• usage of cmake and regression testing frameworks (gtest)

Features

• mutex / shared mutex
• conditional variable
• unique lock / shared lock
• barrier
• semaphore

Check out the ./include/cppc.h for further info and documentation. You can find the use cases in ./tests/ folder.

Installation

1. Clone the repository and position yourself in it
2. Run cmake .
3. Run make cppc_lib (without tests) or make cppc_lib run_tests (with test suite)
4. If you made a test suite, run it by executing the ./run_tests --gtest_repeat=10 (some tests are nondeterministic, you can increase the number if you have time to spare)

Usage

• Include the ./include/cppc.h file as a header
• Link the generated ./libcppc_lib.a when linking your program
• Link the pthread library when linking your program (-pthread flag on most compilers)