A pure C library that provides quite unified api to develop cross-platform applications, net/web services and so on.
This is kind of combination of some ideas from the libraries such as: apache apr, libre and other, but with my needs and view on how it shout be.
The main goals is to have an easy way to develop and maintenance applications on the legacy system, such as: OS/2, Win2k3 or Solaris 10,
but the same time supports the modern systems with the latest gcc/clang and keep the features of the new standards (and use them by needs).
Actually, for a long time it was just like a set of files which I included in different projects, but recently time has appeared to arrange it as a library.

Version 1.2.0a (14.06.2024)

• supported systems (which were tested):
  • OS/2 Warp4, eComstation 2.x and others if you manage to install: emx and gcc-3.2x, binutils-2x, gnu make 3x
    
  • Windows2003 (and other) MinGw-2.4 (gcc-6.3, binutils-2.x, gnu make 3.8) and if you want to have networking support, your winsock version should be not lower 2.2
    
  • Windows10 with the latest MSYS2
    
  • Solaris10/11 (gcc-5.5, binutils-2x, gnu make 4.x), actually was tested only on Sol10
    
  • FreeBSD-12 (clang-10x, gnu make-4.3) and other from the BSD family (NetBSD, OpenBSD, ...)
    
  • Linux ubuntu server 22.04 (gcc-11x, gnu make-4.3)
    
  • OpenWRT (*)
    

Actually it should work without any problem on platforms which meet the following conditions: gcc >= 3.2, gnu make >= 3.x, binutils-2.x

Capabilities:

• threads/mutexes/sleeps - available on the whole systems, and contains special tools, such as: queue, worker (see: examples/test-queue.c, examples/test-worker.c)
  
• networking, besides the low level access to the sockets and its operations also contains advanced multithreaded tcp/udp servers
  
• polling, supports the following methods: select, epoll and kqueue
  
• loadable modules, capable to works with so/dll libraryes
  
• includes structures such as: hashtable, linked list (see: examples/test-hashtable.c, exampes/test-list.c)
  
• various operations with the strings: concat, replace, and so on (see: wstk-str.h)
  
• some useful things was adopted from the libre, such as: mbuf, fmt, pl, regex, and so on
  
• has a builtin multi-threaded http server with the expansion of functionality through 'servlets' (see: examples/test-httpd-servlets.c)
  servlets:
  
  • servlet-jsonrpc - provides an easy way to write services (see: examples/test-httpd-jsonrpc.c)
    
  • servlet-websock - provides an api use server websockets (see: examples/test-httpd-websock.c)
    
  • servlet-upload - a simple way to upload files in the server (see: examples/test-httpd-upload.c)
    
• on the modern systems (C11 standard) provides api to the atomic operations
  
• ssl suppors ( todo )
  
• and other functionality, see examples...
  

Installation and build

The library doesn't contain any autotool scripts and so on, all the configurtion options defines in the main Makefile and wstk-core.h (as the preprocessor variables).
To build it is quite enough to perform: 'make clean all', and then manually copying the library file and headers to the desired location.
To build examples: make clean all TNAME={name} (for example: make clean all TNAME=list)