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+// yabridge: a Wine VST bridge
+// Copyright (C) 2020 Robbert van der Helm
+//
+// This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+// it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+// the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+// (at your option) any later version.
+//
+// This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+// but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+// MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+// GNU General Public License for more details.
+//
+// You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+// along with this program. If not, see .
+
+#pragma once
+
+#ifdef __WINE__
+#include "../wine-host/boost-fix.h"
+#endif
+#include
+
+#include
+#include
+
+namespace bitsery {
+namespace ext {
+
+// TODO: There's probably a better way to do all of this
+
+/**
+ * An adapter for serializing and deserializing filesystem paths since they're
+ * not mutable.
+ */
+class BoostPath {
+ public:
+ template
+ void serialize(Ser& ser, const boost::filesystem::path& path, Fnc&&) const {
+ auto path_str = path.string();
+ ser.text1b(path_str, 4096);
+ }
+
+ template
+ void deserialize(Des& des, boost::filesystem::path& path, Fnc&&) const {
+ boost::filesystem::path::string_type path_str{};
+ des.text1b(path_str, 4096);
+ path = path_str;
+ }
+};
+
+} // namespace ext
+
+namespace traits {
+
+template <>
+struct ExtensionTraits {
+ using TValue = void;
+ static constexpr bool SupportValueOverload = false;
+ static constexpr bool SupportObjectOverload = true;
+ static constexpr bool SupportLambdaOverload = false;
+};
+
+} // namespace traits
+} // namespace bitsery