Welcome

ZFL is the ZeroMQ Function Library, a thin portability & function library for ZeroMQ applications in C/C++. It is written in clear and readable C, portable to all ZeroMQ platforms, and licensed under the LGPL.

The principal goal is to aggressively reduce the LoC in 0MQ devices and other applications written in C, and leave the resulting code 100% portable. A secondary goal is to recycle decades of experience from legacy iMatix C libraries so it can be used for new applications.

ZFL is inspired by the iMatix Standard Function Library (SFL), and borrows liberally from it. See http://legacy.imatix.com/html/sfl/.

Building and installation

See the INSTALL file included with the distribution. To build from git, run sh autogen.sh and then follow the standard INSTALL instructions. Here is the 1-liner for UNIX systems:

sh autogen.sh; ./configure; make all; sudo make install; sudo ldconfig

You will need the pkg-config, libtool, and autoreconf packages.

Using ZFL

Include "zfl.h" in your application and link with libzfl. The single header includes the system header files that typical ZeroMQ applications will need. The provided 'c' shell script lets you write simple portable build scripts.

Resources

ZFL is developed by and for the ZeroMQ community.

Websites: http://zfl.zeromq.org/, http://www.zeromq.org/

Development mailing list: zeromq-dev@lists.zeromq.org Announcements mailing list: zeromq-announce@lists.zeromq.org

Git repository: http://github.com/imatix/zfl

ZFL developers can also be found on the IRC channel #zeromq, on the Freenode network (irc.freenode.net).

Contributions

See the BYLAWS file included with the distribution.

Copying

Free use of this software is granted under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). For details see the files COPYING and COPYING.LESSER included with the ZeroMQ distribution.