source: basicnet/netlibs/wvstreams.xml@ 57b11363

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  <!ENTITY wvstreams-size          "1.0 MB">
  <!ENTITY wvstreams-buildsize     "57 MB (additional 43 MB to install documentation)">
  <!ENTITY wvstreams-time          "0.77 SBU (additional 0.45 SBU to build documentation)">
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<sect1 id="wvstreams" xreflabel="WvStreams-&wvstreams-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="wvstreams.html"?>

  <sect1info>
    <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
    <date>$Date$</date>
    <keywordset>
      <keyword role="package">wvstreams-&wvstreams-version;.tar</keyword>
      <keyword role="ftpdir">wvstreams</keyword>
    </keywordset>
  </sect1info>

  <title>WvStreams-&wvstreams-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="wvstreams">
    <primary sortas="a-WvStreams">WvStreams</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title>Introduction to WvStreams</title>

    <para><application>WvStreams</application> is a library suite containing
    platform-independent C++ networking and utilities libraries for rapid
    application development.</para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&wvstreams-download-http;"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download (FTP): <ulink url="&wvstreams-download-ftp;"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download MD5 sum: &wvstreams-md5sum;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download size: &wvstreams-size;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Estimated disk space required: &wvstreams-buildsize;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Estimated build time: &wvstreams-time;</para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>Required Patch for Tcl: <ulink
        url="&patch-root;/wvstreams-&wvstreams-version;-tcl84-1.patch"/></para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">WvStreams Dependencies</bridgehead>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
    <para role="required"><xref linkend="openssl"/></para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional"><xref linkend="pkgconfig"/>,
    <xref linkend="gamin"/>,
    <!-- <xref linkend="db"/>, -->
    <xref linkend="linux-pam"/>,
    <xref linkend="tcl"/>,
    <xref linkend="qt"/>,
    <xref linkend="speex"/>,
    <xref linkend="libvorbis"/>,
    <xref linkend="doxygen"/>,
    <ulink url="http://www.fftw.org/">FFTW-2.<replaceable>&lt;X&gt;</replaceable></ulink>,
    <ulink url="http://www.swig.org">SWIG</ulink>,
    <ulink url="http://qdbm.sourceforge.net/">QDBM</ulink>,
    <ulink url="http://www.openslp.org/">OpenSLP</ulink>,
    <ulink url="http://xplc.sourceforge.net/">XPLC</ulink>,
    <ulink url="http://valgrind.kde.org/">Valgrind</ulink>, and
    <ulink url="http://perens.com/FreeSoftware/">Electric Fence</ulink></para>

    <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
    <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/wvstreams"/></para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of WvStreams</title>

    <para>If you have <application>Tcl</application> and
    <application>SWIG</application> installed and wish to utilize them, apply the
    following patch and run the <command>autoreconf</command> program:</para>

<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../wvstreams-&wvstreams-version;-tcl84-1.patch &amp;&amp;
autoreconf -f</userinput></screen>

    <para>Install <application>WvStreams</application> by running the following
    commands:</para>

<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr \
    --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var &amp;&amp;
make</userinput></screen>

    <para>If <application>Doxygen</application> is installed and you wish to build
    the API documentation, issue the following command:</para>

<screen><userinput>make doxygen</userinput></screen>

    <para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>

<screen role='root'><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>

    <para>If you built the API documentation, install it using the following commands:</para>

<screen role='root'><userinput>install -v -d -m755 /usr/share/doc/wvstreams-&wvstreams-version;/doxy-html &amp;&amp;
install -v -m644 Docs/doxy-html/* \
    /usr/share/doc/wvstreams-&wvstreams-version;/doxy-html</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="commands">
    <title>Command Explanations</title>

    <para><parameter>--sysconfdir=/etc</parameter>: This parameter places
    configuration files in <filename class='directory'>/etc</filename> instead of
    <filename class='directory'>/usr/etc</filename>.</para>

    <para><parameter>--localstatedir=/var</parameter>: This parameter places
    <command>uniconfd</command> run-time files in
    <filename class='directory'>/var/lib</filename> instead of
    <filename class='directory'>/usr/var/lib</filename>.</para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="configuration">
    <title>Configuring WvStreams</title>

    <sect3 id="wvstreams-config">
      <title>Config Files</title>

      <para><filename>/etc/uniconf.conf</filename></para>

      <indexterm zone="wvstreams wvstreams-config">
        <primary sortas="e-etc-uniconf.conf">/etc/uniconf.conf</primary>
      </indexterm>

    </sect3>

    <sect3>
      <title>Configuration Information</title>

      <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="../../lib-config.xml"/>

    </sect3>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="content">
    <title>Contents</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>uni and uniconfd</seg>
        <seg>libuniconf.{so,a}, libwvbase.{so,a}, libwvfft.{so,a},
        libwvoggspeex.{so,a}, libwvoggvorbis.{so,a}, libwvqt.{so,a},
        libwvstreams.{so,a}, libwvtelephony.{so,a}, libwvutils.{so,a} and
        libxplc-cxx.a</seg>
        <seg>/usr/include/wvstreams, /usr/share/doc/wvstreams-&wvstreams-version; and
        /var/lib/uniconf</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="uni">
        <term><command>uni</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is a program to interface with the UniConf configuration system.</para>
          <indexterm zone="wvstreams uni">
            <primary sortas="b-uni">uni</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="uniconfd">
        <term><command>uniconfd</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is a daemon program for the UniConf configuration system.</para>
          <indexterm zone="wvstreams uniconfd">
            <primary sortas="b-uniconfd">uniconfd</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="libuniconf">
        <term><filename class='libraryfile'>libuniconf.{so,a}</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>contains functions that define a hierarchical registry
          abstraction in the UniConf configuration system.</para>
          <indexterm zone="wvstreams libuniconf">
            <primary sortas="c-libuniconf">libuniconf.{so,a}</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="libwvbase">
        <term><filename class='libraryfile'>libwvbase.{so,a}</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>contains the Base64 encoder and decoder implementations functions.</para>
          <indexterm zone="wvstreams libwvbase">
            <primary sortas="c-libwvbase">libwvbase.{so,a}</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="libwvfft">
        <term><filename class='libraryfile'>libwvfft.{so,a}</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>enables <application>WvStreams</application> programs to
          easily handle Fast-Fourier transforms, instead of forcing the programmer to
          use the much harder to use <filename class="libraryfile">libfftw</filename>
          interface.</para>
          <indexterm zone="wvstreams libwvfft">
            <primary sortas="c-libwvfft">libwvfft.{so,a}</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="libwvoggspeex">
        <term><filename class='libraryfile'>libwvoggspeex.{so,a}</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>enables quick and painless creation of audio streams using
          the <application>Speex</application> Voice over
          IP CODEC.</para>
          <indexterm zone="wvstreams libwvoggspeex">
            <primary sortas="c-libwvoggspeex">libwvoggspeex.{so,a}</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="libwvoggvorbis">
        <term><filename class='libraryfile'>libwvoggvorbis.{so,a}</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>enables quick and painless creation of audio streams using
          the OggVorbis CODEC.</para>
          <indexterm zone="wvstreams libwvoggvorbis">
            <primary sortas="c-libwvoggvorbis">libwvoggvorbis.{so,a}</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="libwvqt">
        <term><filename class='libraryfile'>libwvqt.{so,a}</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>enables <application>WvStreams</application> to act as the
          I/O and configuration back end for <application>Qt</application> and
          <application>KDE</application>.</para>
          <indexterm zone="wvstreams libwvqt">
            <primary sortas="c-libwvqt">libwvqt.{so,a}</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="libwvstreams">
        <term><filename class='libraryfile'>libwvstreams.{so,a}</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>provides functions for basic streaming I/O support.</para>
          <indexterm zone="wvstreams libwvstreams">
            <primary sortas="c-libwvstreams">libwvstreams.{so,a}</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="libtelephony">
        <term><filename class='libraryfile'>libtelephony.{so,a}</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>contains telephony function routines such as echo
          cancellation, dc offset removal, automatic gain control, etc.</para>
          <indexterm zone="wvstreams libtelephony">
            <primary sortas="c-libtelephony">libtelephony.{so,a}</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="libwvutils">
        <term><filename class='libraryfile'>libwvutils.{so,a}</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>contains functions required by the
          <application>WvStreams</application> libraries and utility programs.</para>
          <indexterm zone="wvstreams libwvutils">
            <primary sortas="c-libwvutils">libwvutils.{so,a}</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="libxplc-cxx">
        <term><filename class='libraryfile'>libxplc-cxx.a</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>contains helper functions for the C++
          <application>WvStreams</application> bindings.</para>
          <indexterm zone="wvstreams libxplc-cxx">
            <primary sortas="c-libxplc-cxx">libxplc-cxx.a</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>