msocket

Event-driven socket wrapper for Linux and Windows.

What is it?

MSocket is a system library written in C that wraps the tedious work of setting up socket structs directly using the WinSock2 or the BSD socket APIs.

It allows applications to register callbacks when certain events happen on the socket (such as connect, disconnect or new data received). The msocket library takes care of the low-level details of managing the actual OS-level socket object and works the same way regardless whether you are running on Linux or Windows (or even Cygwin).

MSocket is primarily used in applications which uses event-driven, message based communication.

Features

• TCP client and server (TCP/IP v4 and v6).
• UDP client and server.
• UNIX domain socket client and server.
• Native Windows support using WinSock2 (Visual Studio 2012 and newer)
• Native Linux support
• Cygwin support.
• Easy to use adapter for C++.
• Special testsocket API used for unit testing,

Where is it used?

• cogu/c-apx
• cogu/cpp-apx

Dependencies

None (except OS system APIs).

Building with CMake

cmake -S . -B build
cmake --build build

CMake options

UNIT_TEST (bool): Provides a mock socket object than can be used to spy on what is sent/recevived while unit testing.