networking libraries

[eminhanif]

hi,
anyone got some good networking libraries(not boost.asio) which you
would reccommend?
preferably easy to install on windows..

thanks

 

[Christopher]

hi,
anyone got some good networking libraries(not boost.asio) which you
would reccommend?
preferably easy to install on windows..

thanks

Use winsock
It is already installed.
It was easy to learn for basic use, even for asynchronous or IO-
Completion based networking.

I dont see what advantage any library will make over using the native
API, unless it is tailored for something specific, but you didn't say
what specific needs you had. That isn't an invite, as network
programming is most likely OT here.

Of course a better place to ask would be a newsgroup specific to
windows, network programming, or both.
Such as alt.programming.winsock

 

[Alf P. Steinbach]

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hi,
anyone got some good networking libraries(not boost.asio) which you
would reccommend?
preferably easy to install on windows..

Recommendation without having used: poco.

Please report experience.


Cheers & hth.,

- Alf

 

[eminhanif]

Recommendation without having used: poco.

Please report experience.

thanks, just what i was looking for, the winsock API is a bit bare
for my liking
poco looks great, especially the multi platform support, because i use
ubuntu,vista and tiger os's.

 

[Chris M. Thomasson]

hi,
anyone got some good networking libraries(not boost.asio) which you
would reccommend?
preferably easy to install on windows..

You can take a look at this one:

http://www.lenholgate.com/archives/000637.html

 

[Chris M. Thomasson]

You can take a look at this one:

http://www.lenholgate.com/archives/000637.html

OOPS! This NOT portable; sorry about that!

;^(...

 

[jarl.lindrud]

hi,
anyone got some good networking libraries(not boost.asio) which you
would reccommend?
preferably easy to install on windows..

thanks

RCF is good (I'm biased though):

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/threads/Rcf_Ipc_For_Cpp.aspx

There's a user guide too:

http://deltavsoft.com/RcfUserGuide/

 

[eminhanif]

Recommendation without having used: poco.

Please report experience.

so far so good, it built very nicely on mac and ubuntu had some linker
errors(my bad)
its a very clean library, with good documentation and caters for all
my needs.

one problem though,it doesn't work with mingw and i'm not
converting to microsofts stuff **shudder**...

 

[AnonMail2005]

hi,
anyone got some good networking libraries(not boost.asio) which you
would reccommend?
preferably easy to install on windows..

thanks

Try asio which has been accepted into boost. I briefly looked at it
before it became part of boost and it looked good. It is also cross
platform.

HTH

 

[Alf P. Steinbach]

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so far so good, it built very nicely on mac and ubuntu had some linker
errors(my bad)
its a very clean library, with good documentation and caters for all
my needs.

one problem though,it doesn't work with mingw

What's the problem with mingw + poco?

and i'm not
converting to microsofts stuff **shudder**...

Cheers,

- Alf

 

[eminhanif]

What's the problem with mingw + poco?

Cheers,

- Alf

on vista its supposed to build in vc++ and doesn't build in mingw
as it comes as a vcproject...

but i suppose i do most of my c++ on tiger/ubuntu so it doesn't really
matter

i tried to build boost.asio but it was giving me a nightmare...

btw asio isn't becoming part of the standard is it?

 

[Christof Donat]

Hi,

anyone got some good networking libraries(not boost.asio) which you
would reccommend?
preferably easy to install on windows..

If you can use the really big thing try ACE:
http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE.html
Note: This is not just a small Networking library.

Christof