Simple shell

An attempt started from a specific console application to create a console environment that works like a cmd or shell but can provide much greater extensibility

e.g. support some UNIX commands, 'cd'ing directly to other drives(multiple root currently NOT supported), default loading functions in dlls (as void function()or as int function(int, char**)), default UTF-8 codepage (in the near future), etc...

General Information

This is a toy project under development that currently only support windows. Will add a few macros to define behaviors under other platforms. (And perhaps change the prompt format for UNIX-like ones.)

Building from source

Use Visual Studio 2017 with VC++, C++17 support and you will fine (You may need to retarget the solution corresponding to your SDK version, though...).
Note that you may need to compile and runCmdTreeGen.exe project before building and running the main program in future code(to create a fixed commandline parsing struct in code).
Other compilers may or may not work with the code. File a issue if you want your compiler supported, but may not be attended until the program reaches a stable stage.
Please note that there's a __try{}__except(){} block in LoadLibrary functions, you may need to redefine behavior(possibly using a macro to not compile the code that involve default calling of library functions and use c++ try block insead of a SEH error handling block) if you use a compiler that does not support it.
Also, _WINDLL, _WIN32, _UNICODE, _MBCS macros are used in the program, please adapt those macros and codes if your development environment does not use them

Contributing guidelines

Please be noted that the main goal right now is to make an extensible host from which other functions can be called. From this perspective, please try to use Unicode core for Windows.
Becase of the possibility of porting to other platforms, please try to put platform specific code together so that they can easily be changed using a macros.

License

This project's code by it self if free to use in any regard without warranty, but code that was referenced or included may not belong to this project. These code inclue but are not limited to the original calculator-3.0 by my teacher and various stackoverflow(licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 and MIT as stated (here), if not specified), MSDN (licensed under Ms-LPL if not specified) and other forum topic and reference pages where I looked for the usage of certain Windows API calls.
(Note that my code is licensed under MIT, but I guess I won't do anything if someone violates it with MY code without causing too much harm...)
Please note that when developing this program, I was using student version of certaion tools (Including but not limited to ReSharper's plugin and Vsiual Studio community) (Update: no longer using this specific one.). Thus, if you intend to use it for commercial ends, please file an issue before proceeding. (According to license terms up to Oct 4th, 2018, there is no issue here......(see the License directory))

End remark

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