ASDF for C++

asdf-cxx is an open-source prototype implementation of the ASDF Standard in C++ authored by Erik Schnetter. Although not yet feature-complete, the library supports ASDF’s core capabilities of storing metadata in YAML and serializing n-dimensional numerical data arrays.

Installation Requirements

• C++ 17-capable C++ compiler (tested with Clang and GCC)

• cmake

• pkg-config

• yaml-cpp

Optional libraries for compression and MD5:

• OpenSSL (MD5 checksums)

• bzip2 (compression)

• c-blosc (compression)

• c-blosc2 (compression)

• lz4 (compression)

• zlib (compression)

• zstd (compression)

Build Instructions

$ git clone https://github.com/eschnett/asdf-cxx
$ cd asdf-cxx
$ cmake -B build -S .
$ cmake --build build
$ ctest --test-dir build
$ cmake --install build