This is a repository for Packet Batch that includes common files for all versions (Standard, AF_XDP, and The DPDK). This includes source files to parse JSON config files, command line parsing, and other useful functions.
- JSON-C - Used for parsing config files using the JSON syntax.
While I suggest building and installing the application using the independent versions (standard, AF_XDP, or the DPDK), you may build and install this repository separately if you want as well. You may use git and make. When cloning the repository, you will want to use the --recursive flag to clone the needed submodule(s) as well (in this case, json-c). Otherwise, you will need to execute git submodule update --init.
The following should work.
# Clone the Packet Batch Common repository.
git clone --recursive https://github.com/Packet-Batch/PB-Common.git
# Install build essentials/tools and needed libaries for JSON-C.
sudo apt install -y cmake build-essential clang autoconf libtool pkgconf
# Change current working directory to PB-Common/.
cd PB-Common/
# Execute ./build.sh file to build and install dependencies and main project which requires sudo privileges.
# WARNING - If you don't have sudo available on your system, please look at the ./build.sh file and execute make commands as root in order.
# NOTE - You may also look at the .github/workflows/build.yml.
# NOTE - The first argument represents the amount of threads to use with make. 0 uses the amount of available threads on the system and supplying no argument uses 1 thread.
./build.sh 0
# (Not Required) If you want to clean our build, use the following. It must be ran as root or with sudo because we're also cleaning our LibYAML sub-module.
sudo make clean