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RCF - Interprocess Communication for C++

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A server/client IPC framework, using the C++ preprocessor as an IDL compiler.
//*****************************************************************************
// RCF - Remote Call Framework
// Copyright (c) 2005. All rights reserved.
// Developed by Jarl Lindrud.
// Contact: jlindrud@hotmail.com .
//*****************************************************************************

#ifndef INCLUDE_RCF_USINGBSDSOCKETS_HPP
#define INCLUDE_RCF_USINGBSDSOCKETS_HPP

#include <iostream>
#include <string>

#include <boost/config.hpp>

#include <RCF/Tools.hpp>
#include <RCF/util/Platform/OS/BsdSockets.hpp>

class BsdSocketsErrorInfo 
{
public:
    BsdSocketsErrorInfo() : 
        err(Platform::OS::BsdSockets::GetLastError()), msg(Platform::OS::GetErrorString(err))     
    {}
    friend inline std::ostream &operator<<(std::ostream &os, const BsdSocketsErrorInfo &sei)    
    { 
        os << "Socket error: " << sei.err << ", Msg: " << sei.msg; 
        return os; 
    }
    static BsdSocketsErrorInfo make()
    {
        return BsdSocketsErrorInfo();
    }
private:
    int err;
    std::string msg;
};

// gcc 3.2 doesn't like this...
//#define RCF_VERIFY_SOCKETS(x, msg) UTIL_VERIFY(x, RCF::VerificationFailureException, msg)(BsdSocketsErrorInfo())
// , so we'll use this instead:
#define RCF_VERIFY_SOCKETS(x, msg) UTIL_VERIFY(x, RCF::VerificationFailureException, msg)(::BsdSocketsErrorInfo::make())

#ifdef BOOST_WINDOWS

// Winsock initialization and deinitialization for Windows builds

#include <RCF/InitDeinit.hpp>

namespace RCF {

    inline void initWinsock()
    {
        WORD wVersion = MAKEWORD( 1, 0 );
        WSADATA wsaData;
        RCF_VERIFY_SOCKETS( 0 == WSAStartup( wVersion, &wsaData ), "WSAStartup()" );
    }

    inline void deinitWinsock()
    {
        WSACleanup();
    }

    RCF_ON_INIT_DEINIT( initWinsock(), deinitWinsock() )

} // namespace RCF

#endif // BOOST_WINDOWS

#endif // ! INCLUDE_RCF_USINGBSDSOCKETS_HPP

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Software developer, from Sweden and now living in Canberra, Australia, working on distributed C++ applications. When he is not programming, Jarl enjoys skiing and playing table tennis. He derives immense satisfaction from referring to himself in third person.

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