O client library to rieman writen in C

• Improve TCP code
  • Implement timeout (select)
• Improve error signaling, return kind of errno
• Improve UDP code
  • Does riemann responds UDP?
• Implement an alternative to getaddrinfo(), (gethostbyname!?) at compile time, using config.h
• Autotools
  • Start using config.h
  • Write INSTALL and README
  • Improve checks (I haven't take a look on this yet)
• Provide tarball downloads
• Start versioning **
• Doxygen?
• Improve installation instructions

** next

WARNING: This is in really early stages, and was not fully tested.

1. Clone

git clone https://github.com/gkos/riemann-c-client-lib.git

2. Build
   You need protobuf-c installed and on your path to do this. You can find it at http://code.google.com/p/protobuf-c/ Also you will need autotools to run build.sh

./build.sh
./configure --prefix=${HOME}
make

3. Install!?
   

make install

Check examples directory for usage hints

• Compiling

When compiling you will need to link your code against libriemann_client.so

gcc -o your_bin your_code.c -lriemann_client