[zeromq-dev] [ zeromq-dev] C binding DLL for ROOT/CINT

[Martin Sustrik]

Armin,

>> Intersting. Did it involve changes in the codebase or is it just an 
>> alternate build system?
>>   
> 
> No changes of the codebase ... you have just to link against  libzmq.so .
> 
> To build the zmq extension you must adapt the include file zmq.h a 
> little bit.
> The adaption of zmq.h for the C++ bindings  could be a little bit  more 
> difficult  ...

What exactly had to be modified? Any chance of getting the change upstream?

> However ... the build process is at the end a  2-liner  !!   (makecint  
> + make  make command)

Nice.

>>> PS: tested on LINUX and QNX
>>>     
>>
>> Btw, how does the QNX port do? Does it work out of the box?
>>   
> 
> After the porting steps below it works out of the box:
> 
> - CC=qcc CXX=QCC configure --with-c --with-perf   .... if only C-bindings are requested
> 
> - then add to platform.hpp:
> 
>                 #define rpl_malloc malloc
>                 #define ZMQ_FORCE_SELECT 1

These defines can be added to the existing build system. Would you be 
willing to test it, if I add the code?

> But the performance test shows not so brilliant results ...

Any specifics? Figures? HW it is run on?

Martin