Is this a replacement for the current map compile tools? No, this project aims to simplify and "clean up" the source code of the HL map compile tools in order to make it easier to understand how the tools work, as the original codebase is complex and hard to understand.

How? well,

• Most of arguments were removed (which ones are still left? look here)
• Replaced macros #define constants with constexpr
• Using auto
• Updated C-style struct definition to C++ style
• Rearranged #includes
• Removed SYSTEM_WIN32 macro and related code (now only linux is supported)
• Replaced malloc with new
• Removed old map file version (<220 and QuArK) support
• Main() functions was simplified adding a function to handle arguments, removed the function that reads the params from settings.txt file, also info_compile_parameters support removed
• Removed unused code

It's still difficult to read, but at least there are fewer lines of code. I probably got fucked up some function along the way (for example: read transfer lists file (.inc file) fails when try opening), but it still generates playable bsp maps. (Btw, I'm learning C++ with this project)

is a fork of SHDLT (because is ease build on Linux), which itself is a fork of VHLT cleaned up, which in turn is a fork of VHLT, which is a fork of ZHLT, and so on.

SMCT

Language	Files	Blank Lines	Comment Lines	Code Lines
C++	42	3334	2332	28022
C/C++ Header	23	437	204	1984
TOTAL	65	3771	2536	30006

VHLT Clean-up (remove-ifdef + remove-xash)

Language	Files	Blank Lines	Comment Lines	Code Lines
C++	51	4512	3272	35487
C/C++ Header	33	937	347	4045
TOTAL	84	5449	3619	39532

^{SCMT numbers vary from time to time Generated by cloc v1.90***}

There is still a lot more "cleaning" to do. Something I would like to do in the distant future:

Replace C-style data struct by C++ classes

Replace float array[3] with std::array<float, 3> or glm maybe

Replace char with std::string