Exmpp is an Erlang application which provides the modules to ease the development of an XMPP/Jabber server or client.

About this fork

This fork includes the following PR's from the original repository:

• #16 Adds Rebar
• #14 Updated README

Table of contents

1. Requirements

2. Creating Autotools files

3. Build and install

4. Building examples

5. Using an alternate Erlang environment

6. Using another C compiler

7. Requirements

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• Erlang/OTP (REQUIRED)
  A full Erlang environment is recommended but only ERTS and erl_interface are required:

  • Minimum version: R12B-5

• C compiler (REQUIRED)
  Exmpp contains Erlang port drivers which are written in C. Tested C compilers include:

  • GNU Compiler Collection (gcc)
  • Intel C++ Compiler (icc)
  • GCC frontend for LLVM (llvm-gcc)
  • Microsoft Visual C++ (cl)

  C compilers known not to work:

  • clang frontend for LLVM (ccc)

• XML parsing library (REQUIRED)
  Tested libraries are:

  • Expat: recommended. Tested: 2.0.1
  • LibXML2: only experimental support.

• OpenSSL (optional)
  It's the only TLS engine supported for now.

  • Tested version: 0.9.8e

• zlib (optional)
  It's the only compression engine supported for now.

  • Tested version: 1.2.3

• eunit (optional)
  To be able to use the testsuite, this Erlang application is required.

  • Tested version: 2.0

2. Creating Autotools files

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If you already have configure and Makefile.in files, you can this section and go directly to section 3.

However, if you work on a Subversion/Git checkout, you'll have to generate some files such as the configure script and Makefile.in. For this, you'll have to install the following autotools:

• autoconf 2.60 or higher (read below for 2.62 and 2.63)
• automake 1.9 or later
• libtool 1.5 or later

To generate the files, run:

$ autoreconf -vif

After that, you can use the standard procedure:

$ ./configure
$ make

WARNING: Erlang support in old autoconf 2.62 and 2.63 was broken! If you must stick to these versions, you must apply the following patch to 'erlang.m4' in 'share/autoconf-2.62/autoconf' (patch taken from official autoconf GIT repository):

--- erlang.m4-broken    2009-01-14 17:54:41.000000000 +0100
+++ erlang.m4	2009-01-14 16:51:57.000000000 +0100
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@
 m4_define([AC_LANG(Erlang)],
 [ac_ext=erl
 ac_compile='$ERLC $ERLCFLAGS -b beam conftest.$ac_ext >&AS_MESSAGE_LOG_FD'
-ac_link='$ERLC $ERLCFLAGS -b beam conftest.$ac_ext >&AS_MESSAGE_LOG_FD ; echo "#!/bin/sh" > conftest$ac_exeext ; AS_ECHO(["\"$ERL\" -run conftest start -run init stop -noshell"]) >> conftest$ac_exeext ; chmod +x conftest$ac_exeext'
+ac_link='$ERLC $ERLCFLAGS -b beam conftest.$ac_ext >&AS_MESSAGE_LOG_FD ; echo "[#]!/bin/sh" > conftest$ac_exeext ; AS_ECHO(["\"$ERL\" -run conftest start -run init stop -noshell"]) >> conftest$ac_exeext ; chmod +x conftest$ac_exeext'
 ])

After applying the patch, you must run the following commands:

$ cd [...]/share/autoconf-2.62/autoconf
$ autom4te --language=autoconf --freeze --output=autoconf.m4f

3. Build and install

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Exmpp uses the Autotools. Therefore the process is quite common:

$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install

Building outside of the source directory is supported:

$ mkdir exmpp-build
$ cd exmpp-build
exmpp-build$ /path/to/exmpp-src/configure
exmpp-build$ make
exmpp-build$ sudo make install

By default, Exmpp is installed in Erlang lib directory. You may select another directory with the --prefix argument to the configure script:

$ ./configure --prefix=/install/exmpp/here

Exmpp will be installed in "/install/exmpp/here/exmpp-$VERSION".

4. Building examples

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You can find example code in the "examples" directory.

These modules may be built for you with the --enable-examples configure argument:

$ ./configure --enable-examples

For now, they're not installed.

5. Using an alternate Erlang environment

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If Erlang cannot be found by the configure script of if you prefer to use a specific Erlang environment, you may indicate an alternate Erlang root directory with the --with-erlang argument:

$ ./configure --with-erlang=/path/to/alternate/erlang

Another way is to set the following configure variables:

$ ./configure ERL=/path/to/bin/erl ERLC=/path/to/bin/ERLC \
  ESCRIPT=/path/to/bin/escript

6. Using another C compiler

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You may specify another C compiler to use at configure time. For instance, to use GCC frontend for LLVM:

$ ./configure CC=llvm-gcc
$ make