Sources

Required external tools and libraries

In Windows I have used MinGW. Visual Studio might work, but I haven't tried it. In any case if you want to use Visual Studio you will have lots of work to make it happen. MinGW is the easiest route. Compiling on Linux might need a specific GCC version to work without changes (gcc-3 series probably).

• MinGW, a free C/C++ toolset.
  • Use gcc-3.x.x version instead of gcc-4
  • You probably need the zlib package too
• SCons, a modern build system replacement for make. RV House and the libraries I made to support it use SCons for building binaries.
  • If you don't want to go through the trouble of installing Python etc. you can download a stand-alone executable of SCons for Windows
• ACE, a cross-platform network programming toolkit
• Qt GUI toolkit, a cross-platform GUI toolkit
  • I have used version 4.7.x, 4.8.x versions probably will work also without changes but I haven't tested.
  • Download the sources and compile libraries that can be statically linked to RV House
  • Example configure that I used with MinGW: ./configure.exe -prefix /home/arto/coding/lib/qt_4.7.2_install -static -release -no-mmx -no-3dnow -no-sse -no-sse2 -no-openssl -no-phonon -no-opengl -no-accessibility
• KadC, a Kademlia Distributed Hash Table C library. Use the latest version.
• Boost, semi-official extensions for C++ standard library
  • RV House only needs the serialization library from here
  • For compatibility you need the 1.32 version

RV House libraries and sources

• libreudp, a resending UDP library
  • Dependencies: ACE
  • Use the version from Subversion (SVN) trunk
• libdht, a Distributed Hash Table abstraction library
  • Dependencies: ACE, KadC
  • Use the version from Subversion (SVN) trunk
• libnetcomgrp, a network communication group library
  • Dependencies: ACE, KadC, libreudp, libdht
• RV House
  • Dependencies: All of the above
  • Use the version from Subversion (SVN) trunk

Participating in developing

• All comments, variable names, class names etc. in English
• Read the coding_style.txt from RV House source distribution and follow it