Overview

A TCP client/server library for Linux:

• Supports SSL using the openSSL library
• Supports IP6
• Thread safe
• Uses the Linux EPoll mechanism to respond to OS events in a single thread.
• Demo programs echo server and echo client can be used as a template to create simple TCP client/server applications

This library is currently under active development.

Documentation

See the docs directory for html docs or go here:

https://bkeevil.github.io/tcp/

If you have Doxygen set up on your machine, go to the repository root type doxygen to generate fresh documentation.

Build Instructions

Install build environment and library dependencies.

apt-get install -y build-essential cmake doxygen libboost-all-dev libssl-dev 

The boost library is only required to build the example programs, which use the system, filesystem and program_options libraries.

Use cmake to configure and build the library and example programs

git clone https://github.com/bkeevil/tcp.git
cd tcp
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make all

You can also make tcp to build just the library