The Revised OpenFlow Library (ROFL) helps you adding OpenFlow support to your software to build control applications, controller frameworks and/or datapath elements.
ROFL-datapath contains an OpenFlow pipeline (v1.0, 1.2 and 1.3) and a Hardware Abstraction Layer(HAL) libraries for building datapaths, written in C.
- A modern GNU build-system (autoconf, automake, libtool, ...)
- pkg-config
- GNU/Linux and libc development headers (linux-libc-dev and libc6-dev package in Debian/Ubuntu systems)
- [optional] if you want to run automatic tests (make check), libcunit and libcppunit are required (in libcunit1-dev and libcppunit-dev packages in Debian-like systems).
- [optional] Doxygen to generate the documentation.
Install the dependencies and run:
sh# ./autogen.sh
sh# cd build
sh# ../configure
sh# make
sh# make install
Optionally you can 'make check' for consistency checks.
--enable-debug: compile with debug symbols (-g) and debug output (warning, it may affect performance)
--enable-verbose: increase the level of debug (useless without --enable-debug)
--disable-silent-rules: enable verbose compilation mode (AM_SILENT_RULES disabled)
--with-pipeline-lockess: use lockless pipeline (packet processing API)
--with-pipeline-platform-funcs-inlined: inline platform functions (packet processing API)
Documentation can be compiled via make doc. Documentation is generated in build/doc/ folder
- Certain GCC 4.8.X family versions are buggy and don't properly compile ROFL with -O3 optimizations. Please use GCC 4.8.3 or higher, or another version family.
Some distributions, in particular Red Hat based, do not include by default /usr/local/lib on the search path of ldconfig, not allowing to link against -lrofl and -lrofl_pipeline. In this case, you might have to add /usr/local/lib/ into /etc/ld.so.conf and re-run ldconfig.
You can have a look on:
- https://bisdn.github.io/rofl-core/rofl-pipeline/index.html
- https://bisdn.github.io/rofl-core/rofl-hal/index.html
- http://www.roflibs.org/
- http://www.roflibs.org/doc/
Documentation can be compiled via make doc. Documentation is generated in build/doc/ folder
For getting support or participate in the discussions, join the mailing list rofl-devel@roflibs.org at https://lists.roflibs.org/mailman
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