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+This is an abstraction to read files in c++ (in a very early state)
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+It's more or less based on my networking lib https://github.com/Lluna4/netlib
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+It's primarily built to be used for a png reader for https://forgejo.luna4.xyz/Luna/vulkan_renderer
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+# Features
+For now it has a simple file reader that gives you stuff already deserialized (for now only supports numerals), it buffers reads so the performance is good and the deserialization is in compilation time
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+# How to build
+It uses cmake as a build system (this project requires a c++23 compatible compiler), to compile `mkdir build && cd build` and then `cmake ..` and `cmake --build .` most of things are header only (except buffer.h and buffer.cpp)
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