Socktap as a shared library

[khevessy]

Hello,

I have a question: is there some simple way to compile features introduced in Socktap as shared library? I am asking as I am using the switch BUILD_SHARED_LIBS in main CMakeLists.txt to build whole Vanetza as shared libraries, so I wondered if there is anything like this for Socktap. Maybe I am just silly as it is just meant as a standalone binary only.

For context: Socktap example is now working for me on the Craton 2 platform (I wrote the new link layer for the example). However, I want to develop my own CA service on facilities layer and I need to be using all of your code as a shared library.

Is this possible or do I have to just rewrite the whole part of interfacing the application with Vanetza library code for myself? I doubt I can do it from scratch.

Thank you,
Karel

[riebl]

Code located in the tools subdirectory is not available as a library at the moment. If there is code generic enough to be re-used I suggest moving it into Vanetza's library section, i.e. to the vanetza subdirectory. Which classes and functions do you want to have in a library exactly?

[khevessy]

I thought mainly about classes RouterContext, TimeTrigger and Application, maybe even DccPassthrough (I won't use this one once I will be using DCC mechanisms from Vanetza) as I reused those exactly as they were, but maybe you are right it is not generic enough or just does not belong to the library itself. But from my side it is something that everyone using the library will use.

On another note, do you think I should try to do a pull request with changes for link layer variant with Autotalks API that I did directly in the Vanetza example?

[riebl]

I will have a look at which components may be moved to the library section of Vanetza.
Pull requests of any form are always welcome!