* * What is AutoUnits? * AutoUnits is a C++ library for dealing with quantities--that is, values with units. It allows you to define a units system using a convenient YAML-based format. You can use AutoUnits to perform unit conversions from one unit to another, perform math on those units, define your own unit systems, etc. Someday, AutoUnits will support generating C++ code from a unit system definition allowing for static checking of unit conversions where possible (e.g., it would be a compiler error to convert from meters to joules). Currently there's no API documentation (besides what you can generate from Doxygen), but hopefully that will change someday! * * Building AutoUnits * AutoUnits is a Qt-based library. To build it you will need the following dependencies: - Qt (http://qt.nokia.com/products/) - boost (http://www.boost.org) - yaml-cpp (http://code.google.com/p/yaml-cpp/) Once you've gotten these libraries, you're ready to build the library. Before building, you'll need to define the BOOST_PATH and YAML_CPP_PATH to point to your boost and yaml-cpp installations. These variables are added to the include path, they should be set such that #include <boost/*.h> and #include <yaml-cpp/*.h> work as expected. With that done, cd into the AutoUnits directory and run qmake and make. The library should compile and be ready for use. Examples for using the library are included under the Tools/ directory. * * License * AutoUnits is distributed under the Boost license. See LICENSE for more information.