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Forge

Forge is the Visera engine toolchain: a standalone executable (built when VISERA_BUILD_FORGE is ON) that lives outside the main runtime. It is not linked into Visera.dll and outputs under Toolkit/Forge with per-config subdirs (Debug / Develop / Release).

Overview

  • Build: Toggled by the CMake option VISERA_BUILD_FORGE (default: ON). When OFF, the Forge target is not built.
  • Output: Toolkit/Forge/<Config>/ (e.g. Toolkit/Forge/Debug/Visera-Forge.exe on Windows).
  • Dependencies: Forge links to the main Visera library and uses its own externals (e.g. Abseil, RE2) via Engine/Forge/Scripts/install_*.cmake.

Modules and utilities

Topic Description
Regex RE2-based regex API using FStringView / FString: FullMatch, PartialMatch, Replace, Extract, QuoteMeta, FRegexPattern.

Structure

  • Engine/Forge/ – CMake, sources, and scripts.
  • Engine/Forge/Source/ – C++ module sources (e.g. Visera-Forge.ixx, Utils/Regex/...).
  • Engine/Forge/Scripts/ – install.cmake, install_abseil.cmake, install_re2.cmake.
  • Engine/Forge/External/ – Abseil, RE2, etc.

For detailed Regex usage and examples, see Regex.