Servus  1.4.0
C++ network oriented utilities including a zeroconf implementation
Servus Documentation

Table of Contents

Introduction

Servus is a small C++ network utility library that provides a zeroconf API, URI parsing and UUIDs.

Servus 1.2 can be retrieved by cloning the source code. Please file a Bug Report if you find any issues with this release.

Features

Servus provides classes for:

  • 128 bit UUIDs
  • An URI class to parse strings using generic syntax from RFC3986
  • Zeroconf announcement and browsing using Avahi or DNSSD
  • Detailed Changelog

Building

Servus is a cross-platform library, the only mandatory dependency is a C++11 compiler. Zeroconf will be available in those platforms were either Avahi or DNSSD are available, otherwise an empty dummy backend is used. Servus uses CMake to provide a platform-independent build configuration. The following platforms and build environments have been tested:

  • Linux: Ubuntu 14.04, RHEL 6 using gcc 4.8.2
  • Windows: 8 using Visual Studio 12
  • Mac OS X: 10.9 and 10.10 using clang 6

The following external, pre-installed optional dependencies are used:

  • Boost.Test to build unit tests
  • Avahi (avahi-client) or DNSSD (Apple Bonjour) for zeroconf
  • Qt5 Core for servus::qt::ItemModel
  • Qt5 Widgets for servusBrowser tool

Building from source is as simple as: 

git clone https://github.com/HBPVIS/Servus.git
mkdir Servus/build
cd Servus/build
cmake ..
make