MintServer

tags: C++ Winsock Multi-Client Server

The Plan

Learn how to careat a Winsock-Multi-Client-Server by using windows API, and record how I learn it.

I learn most of it from
The Brave
FaceBookPage
FacebookGroup-The Brave's C++ Server Engine Community

Why using C++?

Pros

• High performance.
• Most of software, Engine, API etc... is create by C++.
• Control Memory Manually to enhance efficiency and stability.
• Create wheel by myself.

Cons

• If not use pointer, array, list etc... carefully, may cause a fatal error.
• Control Memory Manually is dangerous.
• C++ has no memory security check.
• A lot of code is needed compared to other languages.
• Hard to debug a big project.
• Not easy for beginner.

Prior Knowledge

• Basic of C language
• Pointer
• Class
• Inheritance
• Polymorphism
• Template
• Data structure and Algorithm

Here is recommanded toturial for C++ learning :
Learn C++ Programming -Beginner to Advance- Deep Dive in C++
Mastering Data Structures & Algorithms using C and C++
The Cherno C++ series

Popular Game Engine's programming language

• Unity Engine :
  Core : C++
  Application : C#

• Unreal Engine :
  All build on C++

• Photon Engine :
  Server Core : C++
  Server Application : C#
  Client Application : Various of popular language.

A Game Engine's Structure

Main Program is usually a .exe file.

Impltment with .dll files, for example :

• Comman -- Commanly use function, API.
• Net -- Network communication ( winsock / IOCP )
• SQL -- Data library ( mySQL / MSSQL )
• Gameplay -- Gaming Logic
• ToolUI -- D3D / OpenGL
• Image -- Image format ( bmp / tga / png / jpg )
• GUI -- Game UI

Game Engine Framework History

st=>start: Object-Oriented Designed
e=>end: ECS + Job System
op=>operation: Component-Based Design

st->op->e

Environment

Compiler : VS2019
Platform : Window x64

Main Feature

• Multi-Threading
• CPU cache hit
• Less OOP ( Object-Oriented Design )
• More Component-Based, Data-Oriented Design

Future Plan

• Decentralized-Server framework
• Concurrency and Parallelism
• WindorAPI IOCP

Toturial

Toturial 1 - TCP Server

Toturial 2 - Memory

Toturial 3 - Process and Thread

Toturial 4 - Package