Portable lightweight C++ sockets wrapper

Question

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I need a portable c++ sockets wrapper. I\'m planning to use it for a windows server application and a client that w

Answer 1

I'm personally creating my own AsIO wrapper for both TCP and Serial sockets, and I started by reviewing the following tutorial:

https://www.gamedev.net/blogs/blog/950-they-dont-teach-this-stuff-in-school/

and

https://objectcomputing.com/resources/publications/mnb/multi-platform-serial-interfacing-using-boost-a-gps-sensor-and-opendds-part-i/

I found the first one very useful and simple to understand.

Answer 2

C++CSP2

Used it loved it. Stable and powerful

Answer 3

If you really don't like Boost asio then you might like the sockets support in dlib. It is simpler in the sense that it uses traditional blocking IO and threads rather than asio's asynchronous proactor pattern. For example, it makes it easy to make a threaded TCP server that reads and writes from the iostreams. See this example for instance. Or you can just make a simple iosockstream if not acting as a server.