Catalyst is a companion library for GLib containing a collection of convenience functions and classes.

Each function and class originated from scenarios I've come across and decided would be beneficial in a library like this.

API documentation is available at: https://avojak.com/libcatalyst/catalyst-1/

• Asynchronous and monitored downloading of files (Catalyst.HttpUtils)
• Basic arithmetic of arbitrary-precision integers (Catalyst.BigInteger)
• Container class for objects which may or may not contain a null value (Catalyst.Optional)
• Enumarate all values on an enum (Catalyst.EnumUtils)
• Compute checksums of files (Catalyst.DigestUtils)
• Recursively copy, delete, and list files (Catalyst.FileUtils)

And lots more!

If using Meson, simply add the dependency after installation:

dependency('catalyst-1', version: '>= 1.0.0')

Run meson build to configure the build environment:

meson build --prefix=/usr

This will create a build directory.

To build and install Catalyst, use ninja:

ninja -C build install

To run tests:

ninja -C build test

There's also a Makefile if you're lazy like me and don't want to type those commands all the time.

Some features are demonstrated through a simple demo application. To run the demo after installation:

catalyst-1-demo

The additional requirements for building the documentation are:

• valadoc

To generate the valadoc documentation, pass the additional -Ddocumentation=true flag to Meson, and then run ninja as before.