#Welcome to the syscommon Project!
Syscommon is an extremely lightweight set of utility classes that encapsulate commonly used systems programming tools such as Sockets, Threads, Locks etc. in an easy to use API.
The interfaces presented are extremely similar to Java's, making SysCommon an ideal step into the Systems Programming world from the Java language. If you haven't come from a Java background, well trust me its a lot easier :)
Syscommon currently provides:
- Lock class
- Semaphore class with interrupt-able acquire()
- Thread class with interrupt-able join and sleep()
- Properties class with load from file support
- Logger class with log4j like levels
- Multicast Socket (UDP) class with wrapped DatagramPacket for input/output
- Socket (TCP) and ServerSocket classes
- InetSocketAddress class for easy host/address lookup
- Hot swappable Unicode support based on #define UNICODE
- A few string functions to augment std:string (startsWith, endsWith, toUpper, trim)
Syscommon is cross-platform and compiles under Windows, OSX and Linux.
Syscommon is provided under the Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL).
Syscommon uses a simple build system of batch files/shell scripts. The repository contains the relevant scripts to build Syscommon as a static library, which is the recommended way to deplay syscommon.
Syscommon can be built either via the commandline, or through Visual Studio.
To compile on the command line, navigate to the codebase\ directory and issue either
of the following commands:
scripts\windows\vc8.bat # compiles for VC8
scripts\windows\vc10.bat # compiles for VC10
The scripts will build 32-bit and 64-bit static libraries for both ANSI and Unicode
character sets, placing them in the codebase\dist directory.
Visual Studio solution files are located at scripts\windows\vc8\vc8.sln and
scripts\windows\vc10\vc10.sln.
SysCommon can be built via the commandline using the provided build shell script.
scripts/linux32/static.sh # compiles 32-bit versions of the library
scripts/linux64/static.sh # compiles 64-bit versions of the library
The scripts will build 32-bit and 64-bit static libraries for both ANSI and Unicode
character sets, placing them in the codebase\dist directory.
SysCommon can be built via the commandline using the provided build shell script.
scripts/macosx/static.sh # compiles 64-bit versions of the library
The scripts will build 64-bit static libraries for both ANSI and Unicode character
sets, placing them in the codebase\dist directory.
See our Releases page for full release history!