interpretor/faust-0.9.47mr3/architecture/osclib/oscpack/README

   1 oscpack -- Open Sound Control packet manipulation library
   2 http://www.audiomulch.com/~rossb/code/oscpack
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   4 Copyright (c) 2004-2005 Ross Bencina <rossb@audiomulch.com>
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   6 A simple C++ library for packing and unpacking OSC packets.
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   9 Oscpack is simply a set of C++ classes for packing and unpacking OSC packets.
  10 Oscpack includes a minimal set of UDP networking classes for windows and posix
  11 which are sufficient for writing many OSC applications and servers, but you are
  12 encouraged to use another networking framework if it better suits your needs.
  13 Oscpack is not an OSC application framework, it doesn't include infrastructure for
  14 constructing or routing OSC namespaces, just classes for easily constructing,
  15 sending, receiving and parsing OSC packets. The library should also be easy to use
  16 for other transport methods (eg serial).
  17
  18 The key goals of the oscpack library are:
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  20         - to be a simple and complete implementation of OSC
  21         - to be portable to a wide variety of platforms
  22         - to allow easy development of robust OSC applications
  23                 (for example it should be impossible to crash a server
  24                  by sending it malformed packets, and difficult to
  25                  create malformed packets.)
  26
  27 Here's a summary of the key files:
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  29 osc/OscReceivedElements -- classes for parsing a packet
  30 osc/OscPrintRecievedElements -- iostream << operators for printing packet elements
  31 osc/OscOutboundPacket -- a class for packing messages into a packet
  32 osc/OscPacketListener -- base class for listening to OSC packets on a UdpSocket
  33 tests/OscUnitTests -- unit test program for the OSC modules
  34 tests/OscSendTests -- examples of how to send messages
  35 tests/OscReceiveTest -- example of how to receive the messages sent by OSCSendTests
  36 examples/OscDump -- a program that prints received OSC packets
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  40 Building
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  43 In general the idea is that you will embed this source code in your projects as you
  44 see fit. The Makefile has an install rule for building a shared library and
  45 installing headers in usr/local.
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  47 The Makefile works for Linux and MaxOS X except that if you are on a big endian
  48 machine such as PowerPC Macintosh you need to edit the line which sets the
  49 endianness to OSC_HOST_BIG_ENDIAN (see the makefile comment for details) or it won't
  50 work. If you want to build and install liboscpack as a library on OS X you also need
  51 to edit the $(LIBFILENAME) rule by commenting out the Linux case and uncommenting
  52 the OS X case since OS X uses different gcc flags for shared libraries.
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  54 On Windows there is a batch file for doing a simple test build with MinGW gcc called
  55 make.MinGW32.bat. This will build the test executables and oscdump in ./bin and run
  56 the unit tests.
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  58 --
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  61 If you fix anything or write a set of TCP send/recieve classes
  62 please consider sending me a patch. Thanks :)
  63
  64 For more information about Open Sound Control, see:
  65 http://www.cnmat.berkeley.edu/OpenSoundControl/
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  68 Thanks to Till Bovermann for helping with POSIX networking code and
  69 Mac compatibility, and to Martin Kaltenbrunner and the rest of the
  70 reacTable team for giving me a reason to finish this library. Thanks
  71 to Merlijn Blaauw for reviewing the interfaces. Thanks to Xavier Oliver
  72 for additional help with Linux builds and POSIX implementation details.
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  74 Portions developed at the Music Technology Group, Audiovisual Institute,
  75 University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, during my stay as a visiting
  76 researcher, November 2004 - September 2005.
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  78 See the file LICENSE for information about distributing and using this code.
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