libpsyc README file

About

libpsyc implements various functions required to use PSYC.

• See http://about.psyc.eu/libpsyc for more information on the library.
• See http://lib.psyc.eu/doc/ for the API documentation.
• See http://about.psyc.eu/Specification for more information on the new PSYC specification.
• See http://about.psyc.eu/ for information on PSYC in general.

The plain C API located in the include/psyc directory along with the file psyc.h is primarily intended to be used for binding with other languages and frameworks.

The LPC binding for psyced is distributed with psyclpc since it is spread over several files (LPC has no simple approach to binding). Other bindings are located directly in the root folder named according to the language or framework. Currently there's only a binding for D.

C API

The "plain C API" is a very low-level API intended to be used for bindings. To access a certain module of the library, just include the according header file from the psyc directory:

#include <psyc.h>        // basic things for well-being
#include <psyc/parse.h>  // parse psyc packets
#include <psyc/render.h> // render psyc packets
#include <psyc/text.h>   // text template functions
#include <psyc/packet.h> // structures for render.h and functions to initialize them
#include <psyc/syntax.h> // definitions and constants related to parsing and rendering

For more information see the API documentation at http://lib.psyc.eu/doc/.

Directory Overview

doc/      # target folder for the documentation after generation (make doc)
include/  # the core C API for the library
lib/      # target folder for the compiled library (make)
src/      # the sourcecode of the library
test/     # test sourcecodes and test input files
d/        # the D binding

Compiling libpsyc

On GNU systems, type

make

On other systems install GNU make, then type

gmake

and you are done. Other possible targets include:

make install [prefix=/usr]  # install into prefix
make diet                   # compile with diet libc
make test                   # compile and run the tests
make doc                    # generate the API documentation (will be put in the doc folder)
make help                   # display the possible targets

Requirements

libpsyc is currently known to compile under Linux and SunOS.

Contact

If you created new bindings, patches or anything other that you think should go into the library, contact either anyone of us directly or just join the development room at

• psyc://psyced.org/@welcome
• irc://psyced.org/welcome
• xmpp:*welcome@psyced.org

Authors

This library is being developed by:

• Carlo v. Loesch / lynX <psyc://psyced.org/~lynX>
• Gabor X Toth / tg(x) <tg-x.net> <psyc://psyced.org/~tg>
• Mathias L. Baumann / Marenz <psyc://supraverse.net/~marenz>

License

Unless indicated otherwise, all libpsyc source files use the AGPL with additional permissions to link libpsyc libraries with non-AGPL works; the full text of the license is located in the COPYING file with the linking exception at the end.

Style Wars

This source code should follow the http://about.psyc.eu/Indent conventions. (if you have good reasons to use another style, discuss it on the wiki page so that it becomes the general style convention for all of us, not just for you).