rb_helpers.h

Contains various helper functions for the librootbeer API.

General purpose functions that can easily be extracted for reuse. Good examples are rb_canon_relative which canonicalizes an absolute path to a relative path, etc.

Functions

char *rb_canon_relative(rb_ctx_t *ctx, const char *abs_path)

Canonicalizes an absolute path to a relative path based on the context. The path is relative to the entrypoint lua script directory.

Parameters:

  • ctx – Pointer to the rootbeer context.

  • abs_path – The absolute path to be canonicalized.

Returns:

A newly allocated string containing the relative path.