To get started using this library, begin by checking out the code from the <a
href="http://developer.berlios.de/svn/?group_id=7489">BerliOS SVN repository</a>. You may find
- help on using the library at '\ref senf_usage'. If you are interested in SENF, feel free to subscribe
- to the <a href="http://developer.berlios.de/mail/?group_id=7489">SENF mailing lists</a>. If you
- want to contribute, read the docs and \e please adhere to the \ref senf_conventions.
+ help on using the library at '\ref senf_usage'. If you are interested in SENF, feel free to
+ subscribe to the <a href="http://developer.berlios.de/mail/?group_id=7489">SENF mailing
+ lists</a>. If you want to contribute, read the docs and \e please adhere to the \ref
+ senf_conventions.
\see \ref senf_usage\n
<a href="../../Examples/doc/html/index.html">Examples</a>
\section senfutil_overview Building Projects using SENF
- When building projects using %senf, SENFSCons has a very simple helper module
+ When building projects using %senf, SENFSCons has a very simple helper module
\ref senf_senfutil "senfutil.py" to make the building of libraries utilizing %senf simpler.
\see \ref senf_senfutil
\autotoc
+ \c senfutil helps setting up projects which utilize SENF. It will configure all necessary
+ compiler and linker options and additionally sets up some useful defaults and utilities.
+
+ \c senfutil really serves three roles
+
+ \li detect SENF and configure the build accordingly
+ \li make some SCons extensions used within SENF available to other projects
+ \li set default compilation options in the same way, they are set when compiling SENF proper.
+
+ The last two points are of course optional.
+
+ \section senfutil_tutorial Tutorial
+
+ To utilize \c senfutil you need to do two things:
+ \li Update your \c SConstruct file
+ \li add a bootstrap \c senfutil.py to \c site_scons
+
+ Lets start with the \c SConstruct file
+ \code
+ import senfutil
+
+ env = Environment()
+ senfutil.SetupForSENF(env)
+ senfutil.DefaultOptions(env)
+
+ env.SetDefault(
+ PROJECTNAME = 'Example project',
+ PROJECTEMAIL = 'developer@domain.com',
+ DOCLINKS = [ ('Homepage', 'http://www.domain.com') ]
+ )
+
+ sources, tests = senfutil.Glob(env, exclude=['main.cc'])
+
+ objects = env.Object(sources)
+ example = env.Program('example', objects + ['main.cc'])
+ test = env.BoostUnitTest('test', objects + tests)
+
+ env.Default(example)
+
+ senfutil.Doxygen(env)
+
+ senfutil.CleanGlob('all', [ '*~', '#*#' ])
+ \endcode
+
+ This simple sample already enables a lot of functionality:
+ \li support for different \e SENF flavors (debug/normal/final)
+ \li support for different \e build flavors (debug/normal/final)
+ \li sensible default compile options for the different flavors
+ \li support for extended command-line variables
+ \li building documentation with an auto-generated Doxyfile
+ \li running unit-tests
+ \li cleaning backup and temporary files
+
+ Here a very quick rundown of the important scons commands:
+ \li Build default target:
+ <pre>
+ $ scons
+ </pre>
+ \li Build documentation and unit-tests:
+ <pre>
+ $ scons doc test
+ </pre>
+ \li clean up everything
+ <pre>
+ $ scons -c all
+ </pre>
+ \li Pass custom options on the command-line
+ <pre>
+ $ scons CXXFLAGS+=-Wextra
+ </pre>
+
+ Since \c senfutil.py is not on the standard \c python or \c SCons path, some extra steps are
+ needed to find it.
+ \li Either add the possible directories to <tt>sys.path</tt> before importing \c senfutil:
+ \code
+ import sys
+ sys.path.extend(('/usr/local/lib/senf/site_scons', '/usr/lib/senf/site_scons'))
+ import senfutil
+ \endcode
+ \li Alternatively, install the following utility script as <tt>site_scons/senfutil.py</tt> into
+ your project. This script will search for <tt>site_scons/senfutil.py</tt> in a list of
+ directories and then load the real \c senfutil.py on top of itself. The directories searched
+ include: the current directory and all parents, subdirectories named <tt>senf/</tt>,
+ <tt>Senf/</tt> or <tt>SENF/</tt> thereof, and <tt>/usr/local/lib/senf/</tt> and
+ <tt>/usr/lib/senf/</tt>
+ \include senfutil.py
+
+ \section senfutil_features
+
The \c senfutil utility for SCons helps setting up a project to compile against SENF:
\li \c senfutil adds all necessary libraries to link against
CXXFLAGS_final = [ '-O2' ],
CXXFLAGS_normal = [ '-O0', '-g' ],
CXXFLAGS_debug = [ '$CXXFLAGS_normal' ],
-
+
LINKFLAGS_normal = [ '-Wl,-S' ],
LOGLEVELS_debug = [ 'senf::log::Debug||VERBOSE' ],
# Build objects from sources
objects = env.Object(sources)
-
+
# Build main binary
env.Default( env.Program( target='example', source=objects + ['main.cc'] ) )
where \e optional_stream and \e optional_area are optional fully scoped C++ names (e.g. \c
senf::log::Debug) and \e level is the loglevel. There must be \e no whitespace in a single
specification, multiple specifications are either specified using an array or separated with
- whitespace.
+ whitespace.
\section senf_senfutil_default Default options
# Build main target, e.g. a Binary with additional sources which are not part of the unit test
env.Program('example', objects+extra_sources)
-
+
# Build unit tests including additional test sources
env.BoostUnitTest('test', objects+tests)
\endcode
-
+
It is important to exclude the \c main function from the unit-test build since the boost unit
test library provides it's own.
The \c senfutil.Doxygen utility autogenerates a \c Doxyfile.
- The utility will search for a SENF documentation in the \c senfdoc and \c %senf subdirectories
+ The utility will search for a SENF documentation in the \c senfdoc and \c %senf subdirectories
as well as via the senfutil module directory and some other standard locations. If SENF
- documentation is found, the SENF tagfiles will automatically be added. Links will be resolved
+ documentation is found, the SENF tagfiles will automatically be added. Links will be resolved
to the documentation found.
\c senfutil.Doxygen takes some additional optional keyword arguments:
</pre>
in the \c %senf directory. This assumes, that you want to build the library with your default
- gcc and requires the boost libraries to be available in the system include paths. If this is
+ gcc and requires the boost libraries to be available in the system include paths. If this is
not the case, you can take a look at <tt>SConfig.template</tt> file. Copy this file to
<tt>SConfig</tt> and comment out all the variables you don't want to change (The \e values in
the template file are just arbitrary examples).
When building against a self-built SENF which will probably be in debug mode, the '-DSENF_DEBUG'
option must be added to the compile command.
- The most simple way to build using SENF is to use a very simple SCons helper which automatically
- supports debug and final builds, uses SENF either centrally installed or locally built and has
- some other nice features. See <a
- href="../../senfscons/doc/html/index.html#senfutil_overview">Building Projects using SENF</a>
- for more info and an example for this utility.
-
\see \ref senf_components \n
\ref senf_overview
*/
oriented network applications. The library provides a large set of pre-defined modules as well
as the necessary helpers to implement application specific processing modules.
- \see <a href="../../PPI/doc/html/index.html">libPPI API reference</a>
+ \see <a href="../../senf/PPI/doc/html/index.html">libPPI API reference</a>
\section libSocket libSocket: C++ abstraction of the BSD socket API
API. It utilizes a flexible and extensible policy based design. The library provides predefined
types for the important socket types (UDP and TCP sockets etc) including raw and packet sockets.
- \see <a href="../../Socket/doc/html/index.html">libSocket API reference</a>
+ \see <a href="../../senf/Socket/doc/html/index.html">libSocket API reference</a>
\section libPackets libPackets: Network packet manipulation
packetized network data. Included is a library of several protocol parsers covering the basic
IPv4 and IPv6 network protocols down to the Ethernet layer.
- \see <a href="../../Packets/doc/html/index.html">libPackets API reference</a>
+ \see <a href="../../senf/Packets/doc/html/index.html">libPackets API reference</a>
\section libScheduler libScheduler: Asynchronous event handling
event dispatcher. It is based on the high performance \c epoll system call. It provides support
for read/write events as well as simple timer based events.
- \see <a href="../../Scheduler/doc/html/index.html">libScheduler API reference</a>
+ \see <a href="../../senf/Scheduler/doc/html/index.html">libScheduler API reference</a>
\section libUtils libUtils: Collection of arbitrary utilities
\li An interface to the \c g++ de-mangler integrated with type_info
\li Typedefs and rudimentary methods to simplify handling high-resolution time values
- \see <a href="../../Utils/doc/html/index.html">libUtils API reference</a>
+ \see <a href="../../senf/Utils/doc/html/index.html">libUtils API reference</a>
\section senfscons SENFSCons, the SENF build environment
\section senf_startup Getting starting developing with SENF
To introduce the framework and it's general structure, a simple example application is provided
- in the SENF repository in the \c Sniffer module. Peruse this example to get a first look at how
+ in the SENF repository in the \c %Sniffer module. Peruse this example to get a first look at how
to make use of SENF.
When building a network Application with SENF, you will use several modules:
- \li Use the <a href="../../Socket/doc/html/index.html">Socket library</a> for network
+ \li Use the <a href="../../senf/Socket/doc/html/index.html">Socket library</a> for network
communication needs. This library includes support for raw and packet sockets to allow low
level network access.
- \li Use the <a href="../../Scheduler/doc/html/index.html">Scheduler library</a> to coordinate
- the asynchronous event processing. This drastically reduces the number of threads needed in
- your application and will greatly enhance the overall responsiveness.
+ \li Use the <a href="../../senf/Scheduler/doc/html/index.html">Scheduler library</a> to
+ coordinate the asynchronous event processing. This drastically reduces the number of threads
+ needed in your application and will greatly enhance the overall responsiveness.
\li To interpret low level network packets, use the <a
- href="../../Packets/doc/html/index.html">Packets library</a>. This library will provide
+ href="../../senf/Packets/doc/html/index.html">Packets library</a>. This library will provide
efficient and convenient access to all protocol fields. It supports parsing as well as
modifying and creating packets. It has default support for the most important Internet
protocols and is highly extensible with new protocols.
- \li Go over the <a href="../../Utils/doc/html/index.html">Utils library</a>. It contains small
+ \li Go over the <a href="../../senf/Utils/doc/html/index.html">Utils library</a>. It contains
+ small
helpers to simplify tasks like daemonization, exception handling, debugging and so on.
The simplest way to get started is: copy the Sniffer application and start to modify it.
\ref senf_setup
\section senf_conventions Coding Conventions
-
+
Here we have laid down the coding conventions used throughout the SENF framework. Please ad here
to these conventions when changing or adding code. If you use emacs, you can use the C++ IDE for
emacs from http://g0dil.de which greatly simplifies following these conventions.
\par Rationale:
This simplifies finding the implementation/header for a given class and also reduces the
size of each single file.
-
+
The implementation is divided into a number of different files:
<table class="glossary"> <tr><td>\c .h</td><td>C public header</td></tr>
<tr><td>\c .cci</td><td>C++ implementation of inline non-template functions and
members</td></tr>
-
+
<tr><td>\c .cti</td><td>C++ implementation of inline template functions and members</td></tr>
<tr><td>\c .mpp</td><td>Special include file used for external iteration by the
\li When defining simple exception classes, the 'what()' member may be defined inline if it
returns a string constant.
\li It may be OK to use inline implementations for one-line implementations in internal
- headers.
+ headers.
\li The Packet library allows inline implementations for the definition of parsers since doing
so outside the declaration just gets to verbose and parsers definitions are quite length but
very simple and straight forward.
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