reflecxx VS Kaitai Struct

I haven't used the cmake_find_package generator much myself. People like it because it lets you write your cmake in a mostly conan agnostic way. If you don't care about that, I find the plain cmake generator much easier to use. You can inspect the generated conanbuildinfo.cmake file to see the targets, and call conan_basic_setup(TARGETS ). Then you link against targets that look like CONAN_PKG::boost or similar. I usually wrap conan setup in a cmake utility file like this: https://github.com/jimmyorourke/reflecxx/blob/main/test/cmake/ConanSetup.cmake

I have a library and tooling that using code generation will allow you to automatically generate serialization/deserialization to your custom binary format. It uses the visitor pattern and code generation for static reflection (eg iterating over fields of a struct). Check it out at https://github.com/jimmyorourke/reflecxx. Particularly it includes an automatic to/from json, which you could use as a starting point for how to write your own visitor.

You might be interested in a project I've put together that uses libclang to generate static reflection metadata that can then be used for generic parsing or serialization: https://github.com/jimmyorourke/reflecxx. It has examples of automatic to/from json.

- ImHex [2], which has a pattern language [3] which allows parsing, and it seems more powerful than what Kaitai offers. I stumbled upon some limitations with it but it was still useful.

[1]: https://kaitai.io/

Beautiful. Didn't know something like this exists. Reminds me of Katai[0]

[0]. https://kaitai.io/

An EDID override like this would be helpful for macOS as well, where the monitors swapping around after standby is a real annoyance [0] [1]

EDID rewrites are 99% of the time blocked by the monitor firmware: https://notes.alinpanaitiu.com/Decoding-monitor-EDID-on-macO...

By the way, one helpful tool that helped me navigate the EDID dump was Kaitai Struct [2]. It shows a side by side view with the hex view and the EDID structure, and it highlights the hex values in real time as you navigate the structure. Unfortunately [3] it doesn't support the extension blocks that the author needs.

[0] https://notes.alinpanaitiu.com/Weird-monitor-bugs

[1] https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/external-displays-swapp...

[2] https://kaitai.io/

[3] https://github.com/kaitai-io/edid.ksy

Kaitai Struct might be a good choice for that: https://kaitai.io/

For binary log format, there's the excellent Kaitai Struct frameworks, that make it very easy to generate parsers from a declarative schema

kaitai

https://kaitai.io/

Worth a look if you are writing binary parsers.