macOS Clang C++17 filesystem header not found

Question

I need to write a program using the (experimental) C++17 filesystem library but clang on my Mac (macOS 10.12.03) doesn\'t seem to

Answer 1

Recursive directory walk using ftw in c, more details here.

On, -std=c++17 for macOS version 10.xx, filesystem header is not available.

#include <ftw.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <string.h>

 
int list(const char *name, const struct stat *status, int type)
{
     if (type == FTW_NS)
     {
         return 0;
     }

     if (type == FTW_F)
     {
         printf("0%3o\t%s\n", status->st_mode&0777, name);
     }

     if (type == FTW_D && strcmp(".", name) != 0)
     {
         printf("0%3o\t%s/\n", status->st_mode&0777, name);
     }
     return 0;
}

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
     if(argc == 1)
     {
         ftw(".", list, 1);
     }
     else
     {
         ftw(argv[1], list, 1);
     }

     return 0;
}

output looks like following:

0755    ./Shivaji/
0644    ./Shivaji/20200516_204454.png
0644    ./Shivaji/20200527_160408.png
0644    ./Shivaji/20200527_160352.png
0644    ./Shivaji/20200520_174754.png
0644    ./Shivaji/20200520_180103.png
0755    ./Saif/
0644    ./Saif/Snapchat-1751229005.jpg
0644    ./Saif/Snapchat-1356123194.jpg
0644    ./Saif/Snapchat-613911286.jpg
0644    ./Saif/Snapchat-107742096.jpg
0755    ./Milind/
0644    ./Milind/IMG_1828.JPG
0644    ./Milind/IMG_1839.JPG
0644    ./Milind/IMG_1825.JPG
0644    ./Milind/IMG_1831.JPG
0644    ./Milind/IMG_1840.JPG

Answer 2

If anyone still interested, Xcode 10 Beta ships with libc++ that has experimental/filesystem

UPDATE one of Xcode 10 betas used to ship with it, perhaps by accident, Xcode 10.1 unfortunately, doesn't have it :(