1 EMBEDDING THE LIBEV CODE INTO YOUR OWN PROGRAMS
3 Instead of building the libev library you can also include the code
4 as-is into your programs. To update, you only have to copy a few files
13 To include only the libev core (all the ev_* functions):
15 #define EV_STANDALONE 1
18 This will automatically include ev.h, too, and should be done in a
19 single C source file only to provide the function implementations. To
20 use it, do the same for ev.h in all files wishing to use this API
21 (best done by writing a wrapper around ev.h that you can include
22 instead and where you can put other configuration options):
24 #define EV_STANDALONE 1
27 Both header files and implementation files can be compiled with a C++
28 compiler (at least, thats a stated goal, and breakage will be treated
31 You need the following files in your source tree, or in a directory
32 in your include path (e.g. in libev/ when using -Ilibev):
40 ev_select.c only when select backend is enabled (which is is by default)
41 ev_poll.c only when poll backend is enabled (disabled by default)
42 ev_epoll.c only when the epoll backend is enabled (disabled by default)
43 ev_kqueue.c only when the kqueue backend is enabled (disabled by default)
45 "ev.c" includes the backend files directly when enabled.
47 LIBEVENT COMPATIBILITY API
49 To include the libevent compatibility API, also include:
53 in the file including "ev.c", and:
57 in the files that want to use the libevent API. This also includes "ev.h".
59 You need the following additional files for this:
66 Libev can be configured via a variety of preprocessor symbols you have to define
67 before including any of its files. The default is not to build for mulciplicity
68 and only include the select backend.
72 Must always be "1", which keeps libev from including config.h or
73 other files, and it also defines dummy implementations for some
74 libevent functions (such as logging, which is not supported). It
75 will also not define any of the structs usually found in "event.h"
76 that are not directly supported by libev code alone.
80 The name of the ev.h header file used to include it. The default
81 if undefined is <ev.h> in event.h and "ev.h" in ev.c. This can
82 be used to virtually rename the ev.h header file in case of
87 Similarly to EV_H, this macro cna be used to override event.c's idea
88 of how the event.h header can be found.
92 If undefined or defined to be "1", libev will try to detect the
93 availability of the monotonic clock option at both compiletime and
94 runtime. Otherwise no use of the monotonic clock option will be
99 If defined to be "1", libev will try to detect the availability
100 of the realtime clock option at compiletime (and assume its
101 availability at runtime if successful). Otherwise no use of the
102 realtime clock option will be attempted. This effectively replaces
103 gettimeofday by clock_get (CLOCK_REALTIME, ...) and will not normally
108 If undefined or defined to be "1", libev will compile in support
109 for the select(2) backend. No attempt at autodetection will be
110 done: if no other method takes over, select will be it. Otherwise
111 the select backend will not be compiled in.
113 EV_SELECT_USE_WIN32_HANDLES
115 When defined to 1, the select backend will assume that select
116 doesn't understand file descriptors but wants osf handles on
117 win32 (this is the case when the select to be used is the winsock
118 select). This means that it will call _get_osfhandle on the fd to
119 convert it to an OS handle. Should not be defined on non-win32
124 If defined to be "1", libev will compile in support for the poll(2)
125 backend. No attempt at autodetection will be done. poll usually
126 performs worse than select, so its not enabled by default (it is
127 also slightly less portable).
131 If defined to be "1", libev will compile in support for the Linux
132 epoll backend. Its availability will be detected at runtime,
133 otherwise another method will be used as fallback. This is the
134 preferred backend for GNU/Linux systems.
138 If defined to be "1", libev will compile in support for the BSD
139 style kqueue backend. Its availability will be detected at runtime,
140 otherwise another method will be used as fallback. This is the
141 preferred backend for BSD and BSd-like systems. Darwin brokenness
142 will be detected at runtime and routed around by disabling this
147 By default, all watchers have a "void *data" member. By redefining
148 this macro to a something else you can include more and other types
149 of members. You have to define it each time you include one of the
150 files, though, and it must be identical each time.
152 For example, the perl EV module uses this:
155 SV *self; /* contains this struct */ \
156 SV *cb_sv, *fh /* note no trailing ";" */
160 If defined to be "0", then "ev.h" will not define any function
161 prototypes, but still define all the structs and other
162 symbols. This is occasionally useful.
166 If undefined or defined to "1", then all event-loop-specific
167 functions will have the "struct ev_loop *" as first argument, and
168 you can create additional independent event loops. Otherwise there
169 will be no support for multiple event loops and there is no first
170 event loop pointer argument. Instead, all functions act on the
175 For a real-world example of a program the includes libev
176 verbatim, you can have a look at the EV perl module
177 (http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/EV.html). It has the libev files in
178 the libev/ subdirectory and includes them in the EV/EVAPI.h (public
179 interface) and EV.xs (implementation) files. Only the EV.xs file will