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SFNUL Simple and Fast Network Utility library

INSTALLING

SFNUL requires a compiler with C++11 support. Not all features are used, however many newer features are used that might not be supported by all compilers even though they claim C++11 support. Your mileage may vary.

Dependencies:

ASIO (standalone C++11 version) provided in extlibs
Botan provided in extlibs
http-parser provided in extlibs
SFML 2.x for the optional SFML synchronization example (http://sfml-dev.org/)
ASIO is provided under the Boost Software License.
Botan is provided under the Simplified BSD License.
http-parser is provided under the MIT License.
SFML is provided under the zlib License.

The build system in use is CMake (http://cmake.org/). It's available for all major platforms.

To build, perform the following steps:

cmake .
make install (as root)
On Linux: ldconfig (as root)

USING SFNUL IN OWN PROJECTS

To use SFNUL in your projects, you have to link to the SFNUL library (see 1. for building). Also make sure that your compiler is able to find SFNUL's include directory.

If you're using CMake for your project and you've properly installed SFNUL (see 1.), you can automate the process of finding SFNUL. At first copy the file cmake/FindSFNUL.cmake to your CMake's module directory. Then add the following to your project's CMakeLists.txt file:

find_package( SFNUL REQUIRED ) include_directories( ${SFNUL_INCLUDE_DIR} ) add_executable( my_program ... ) target_link_libraries( my_program ... ${SFNUL_LIBRARY} )

In case CMake can't find your SFNUL installation, you can still specify the path manually by setting the SFNUL_ROOT CMake variable.

Because SFNUL makes use of the operating system's networking subsystem, be sure to link the necessary networking libraries to your final application as well.