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This adds few functions to use evhttp-based webserver to handle incoming WebSockets connections. We've tried to use both libevent and libwebsockets in our application, but found that we need to have different ports at the same time to handle standard HTTP and WebSockets traffic. This change can help to stick only with libevent library. Implementation was inspired by modified Libevent source code in ipush project [1]. [1]: https://github.com/sqfasd/ipush/tree/master/deps/libevent-2.0.21-stable Also, WebSocket-based chat server was added as a sample.
1. BUILDING AND INSTALLATION
Autoconf
$ ./configure
$ make
$ make verify # (optional)
$ sudo make install
See Documentation/Building#Autoconf for more information
CMake (Windows)
Install CMake: https://www.cmake.org
$ md build && cd build
$ cmake -G "Visual Studio 10" .. # Or use any generator you want to use. Run cmake --help for a list
$ cmake --build . --config Release # Or "start libevent.sln" and build with menu in Visual Studio.
See Documentation/Building#Building on Windows for more information
CMake (Unix)
$ mkdir build && cd build
$ cmake .. # Default to Unix Makefiles.
$ make
$ make verify # (optional)
See Documentation/Building#Building on Unix (With CMake) for more information
Package Managers
You can download and install libevent using the vcpkg dependency manager:
git clone https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg.git
cd vcpkg
./bootstrap-vcpkg.sh
./vcpkg integrate install
./vcpkg install libevent
The libevent port in vcpkg is kept up to date by Microsoft team members and community contributors. If the version is out of date, please create an issue or pull request on the vcpkg repository.
2. USEFUL LINKS:
For the latest released version of Libevent, see the official website at http://libevent.org/ .
There's a pretty good work-in-progress manual up at http://www.wangafu.net/~nickm/libevent-book/ .
For the latest development versions of Libevent, access our Git repository via
$ git clone https://github.com/libevent/libevent.git
You can browse the git repository online at:
https://github.com/libevent/libevent
To report bugs, issues, or ask for new features:
Patches: https://github.com/libevent/libevent/pulls
OK, those are not really patches. You fork, modify, and hit the "Create Pull Request" button. You can still submit normal git patches via the mailing list.
Bugs, Features [RFC], and Issues: https://github.com/libevent/libevent/issues
Or you can do it via the mailing list.
There's also a libevent-users mailing list for talking about Libevent use and development:
http://archives.seul.org/libevent/users/
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The following people have helped with suggestions, ideas, code or fixing bugs.