Question

I have to program a server client logic for 2 application, with this conditions:

• 1 application only send data and the other application only receives this data
• both are in C++
• the application that receives data is supposed to be multiplatform, or at least present under Mac, Linux and Windows
• i have to exchange just numerical values or a well defined set of structs, the data packets have a deadly simple skeleton structure

I was hoping that there is a library that can help me with this to keep my work simple.

I want to stress the fact that i have to use only the headers like sys/socket.h related to socket programming and no other dependecy.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Your requirements are a bit inconsistent, because normally a library is a dependency.

Libraries fulfilling your other requirements: Boost.Asio, http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_51_0/doc/html/boost_asio.html, and ACE (adaptive communication environment), http://www.cs.wustl.edu/~schmidt/ACE.html.