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1Notes about building lws
2========================
3
4You can download and install lws using the [vcpkg](https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg/) dependency manager:
5```
6git clone https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg.git
7cd vcpkg
8./bootstrap-vcpkg.sh
9./vcpkg integrate install
10vcpkg install libwebsockets
11```
12The lws port in vcpkg is kept up to date by Microsoft team members and community contributors. If the version is out of date, please [create an issue or pull request](https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg/) on the vcpkg repository.
13
14@section cm Introduction to CMake
15
16CMake is a multi-platform build tool that can generate build files for many
17different target platforms. See more info at http://www.cmake.org
18
19CMake also allows/recommends you to do "out of source"-builds, that is,
20the build files are separated from your sources, so there is no need to
21create elaborate clean scripts to get a clean source tree, instead you
22simply remove your build directory.
23
24Libwebsockets has been tested to build successfully on the following platforms
25with SSL support (for OpenSSL/wolfSSL/BoringSSL):
26
27- Windows (Visual Studio)
28- Windows (MinGW)
29- Linux (x86 and ARM)
30- OSX
31- NetBSD
32
33
34@section build1 Building the library and test apps
35
36The project settings used by CMake to generate the platform specific build
37files is called [CMakeLists.txt](../CMakeLists.txt). CMake then uses one of its "Generators" to
38output a Visual Studio project or Make file for instance. To see a list of
39the available generators for your platform, simply run the "cmake" command.
40
41Note that by default OpenSSL will be linked, if you don't want SSL support
42see below on how to toggle compile options.
43
44
45@section bu Building on Unix:
46
471. Install CMake 2.8 or greater: http://cmake.org/cmake/resources/software.html
48   (Most Unix distributions comes with a packaged version also)
49
502. Install OpenSSL.
51
523. Generate the build files (default is Make files):
53```
54        $ cd /path/to/src
55        $ mkdir build
56        $ cd build
57        $ cmake ..
58```
59
604. Finally you can build using the generated Makefile:
61```
62    $ make && sudo make install
63```
64**NOTE**: The `build/`` directory can have any name and be located anywhere
65 on your filesystem, and that the argument `..` given to cmake is simply
66 the source directory of **libwebsockets** containing the [CMakeLists.txt](../CMakeLists.txt)
67 project file. All examples in this file assumes you use ".."
68
69**NOTE2**:
70A common option you may want to give is to set the install path, same
71as --prefix= with autotools.  It defaults to /usr/local.
72You can do this by, eg
73```
74    $ cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=/usr .
75```
76
77**NOTE3**:
78On machines that want libraries in lib64, you can also add the
79following to the cmake line
80```
81    -DLIB_SUFFIX=64
82```
83
84**NOTE4**:
85If you are building against a non-distro OpenSSL (eg, in order to get
86access to ALPN support only in newer OpenSSL versions) the nice way to
87express that in one cmake command is eg,
88```
89    $ cmake .. -DOPENSSL_ROOT_DIR=/usr/local/ssl \
90         -DCMAKE_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES_PROJECT_BEFORE=/usr/local/ssl \
91         -DLWS_WITH_HTTP2=1
92```
93
94When you run the test apps using non-distro SSL, you have to force them
95to use your libs, not the distro ones
96```
97    $ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/ssl/lib libwebsockets-test-server --ssl
98```
99
100To get it to build on latest openssl (2016-04-10) it needed this approach
101```
102    cmake .. -DLWS_WITH_HTTP2=1 -DLWS_OPENSSL_INCLUDE_DIRS=/usr/local/include/openssl -DLWS_OPENSSL_LIBRARIES="/usr/local/lib64/libssl.so;/usr/local/lib64/libcrypto.so"
103```
104
105Mac users have reported
106
107```
108 $ export OPENSSL_ROOT_DIR=/usr/local/Cellar/openssl/1.0.2k; cmake ..; make -j4
109```
110
111worked for them when using "homebrew" OpenSSL
112
113**NOTE5**:
114To build with debug info and _DEBUG for lower priority debug messages
115compiled in, use
116```
117    $ cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=DEBUG
118```
119
120**NOTE6**
121To build on Solaris the linker needs to be informed to use lib socket
122and libnsl, and only builds in 64bit mode.
123
124```bash
125    $ cmake .. -DCMAKE_C_FLAGS=-m64 -DCMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS="-lsocket -lnsl"
126```
127
128**NOTE7**
129
130Build and test flow against boringssl.  Notice `LWS_WITH_GENHASH` is currently
131unavailable with boringssl due to their removing the necessary apis.
132
133Build current HEAD boringssl
134
135```
136 $ cd /projects
137 $ git clone https://boringssl.googlesource.com/boringssl
138 $ cd boringssl
139 $ mkdir build
140 $ cd build
141 $ cmake ..  -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=1
142 $ make -j8
143```
144
145Build and test lws against it
146
147```
148 $ cd /projects/libwebsockets/build
149 $ cmake .. -DOPENSSL_LIBRARIES="/projects/boringssl/build/ssl/libssl.so;\
150   /projects/boringssl/build/crypto/libcrypto.so" \
151   -DOPENSSL_INCLUDE_DIRS=/projects/boringssl/include \
152   -DLWS_WITH_BORINGSSL=1 -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=DEBUG
153 $ make -j8 && sudo make install
154 $ LD_PRELOAD="/projects/boringssl/build/ssl/libssl.so \
155   /projects/boringssl/build/crypto/libcrypto.so" \
156   /usr/local/bin/libwebsockets-test-server -s
157```
158
1594. Finally you can build using the generated Makefile:
160
161```bash
162    $ make
163 ```
164
165@section lcap Linux Capabilities
166
167On Linux, lws now lets you retain selected root capabilities when dropping
168privileges.  If libcap-dev or similar package is installed providing
169sys/capabilities.h, and libcap or similar package is installed providing
170libcap.so, CMake will enable the capability features.
171
172The context creation info struct .caps[] and .count_caps members can then
173be set by user code to enable selected root capabilities to survive the
174transition to running under an unprivileged user.
175
176@section cmq Quirk of cmake
177
178When changing cmake options, for some reason the only way to get it to see the
179changes sometimes is delete the contents of your build directory and do the
180cmake from scratch.
181
182deleting build/CMakeCache.txt may be enough.
183
184
185@section cmw Building on Windows (Visual Studio)
186
1871. Install CMake 2.6 or greater: http://cmake.org/cmake/resources/software.html
188
1892. Install OpenSSL binaries. https://wiki.openssl.org/index.php/Binaries
190
191   (**NOTE**: Preferably in the default location to make it easier for CMake to find them)
192
193   **NOTE2**:
194   Be sure that OPENSSL_CONF environment variable is defined and points at
195   <OpenSSL install location>\bin\openssl.cfg
196
1973. Generate the Visual studio project by opening the Visual Studio cmd prompt:
198
199```
200    cd <path to src>
201    md build
202    cd build
203    cmake -G "Visual Studio 10" ..
204```
205
206   (**NOTE**: There is also a cmake-gui available on Windows if you prefer that)
207
208   **NOTE2**:
209   See this link to find out the version number corresponding to your Visual Studio edition:
210   http://superuser.com/a/194065
211
2124. Now you should have a generated Visual Studio Solution in  your
213   `<path to src>/build` directory, which can be used to build.
214
2155. Some additional deps may be needed
216
217 - iphlpapi.lib
218 - psapi.lib
219 - userenv.lib
220
2216. If you're using libuv, you must make sure to compile libuv with the same multithread-dll / Mtd attributes as libwebsockets itself
222
223
224@section cmwmgw Building on Windows (MinGW)
225
2261. Install MinGW
227
228    For Fedora, it's, eg, `dnf install mingw64-gcc`
229
2302. Install current CMake package
231
232    For Fedora, it's `dnf install cmake`
233
2343. Instal mingw-built OpenSSL pieces
235
236    For Fedora, it's `mingw64-openssl.noarch mingw64-openssl-static.noarch`
237
238    mingw64-cmake as described below will auto-find the libs and includes
239    for build.  But to execute the apps, they either need to go into the same
240    `/usr/x86_64-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/bin/` as the dlls are installed to,
241    or the dlls have to be copied into the same dir as your app executable.
242
2434. Generate the build files (default is Make files) using MSYS shell.
244
245   For Fedora, they provide a `mingw64-cmake` wrapper in the package
246   `mingw64-filesystem`, with this you can run that instead of cmake directly
247   and don't have to get involved with setting the cmake generator.
248
249   Otherwise doing it by hand is like this:
250
251```
252    $ cd /drive/path/to/src
253    $ mkdir build
254    $ cd build
255    $ cmake -G "MSYS Makefiles" -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=C:/MinGW ..
256```
257
258   To generate build files allowing to create libwebsockets binaries with debug information
259   set the CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE flag to DEBUG:
260```
261    $ cmake -G "MSYS Makefiles" -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=C:/MinGW -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=DEBUG ..
262```
2635. Finally you can build using the generated Makefile and get the results deployed into your MinGW installation:
264
265```
266    $ make && make install
267```
268
269@section distro Selecting CMake options useful for distros
270
271Distro packagers should select the CMake option "LWS_WITH_DISTRO_RECOMMENDED",
272which selects common additional options like support for various event libraries,
273plugins and lwsws.
274
275@section ssllib Choosing Your TLS Poison
276
277 - If you are really restricted on memory, code size, or don't care about TLS
278   speed, mbedTLS is a good choice: `cmake .. -DLWS_WITH_MBEDTLS=1`
279
280 - If cpu and memory is not super restricted and you care about TLS speed,
281   OpenSSL or a directly compatible variant like Boring SSL is a good choice.
282
283Just building lws against stock Fedora OpenSSL or stock Fedora mbedTLS, for
284SSL handhake mbedTLS takes ~36ms and OpenSSL takes ~1ms on the same x86_64
285build machine here, with everything else the same.  Over the 144 connections of
286h2spec compliance testing for example, this ends up completing in 400ms for
287OpenSSL and 5.5sec for mbedTLS on x86_64.  In other words mbedTLS is very slow
288compared to OpenSSL under the (fairly typical) conditions I tested it.
289
290This isn't an inefficiency in the mbedtls interface implementation, it's just
291mbedTLS doing the crypto much slower than OpenSSL, which has accelerated
292versions of common crypto operations it automatically uses for platforms
293supporting it.  As of Oct 2017 mbedTLS itself has no such optimizations for any
294platform that I could find.  It's just pure C running on the CPU.
295
296Lws supports both almost the same, so instead of taking my word for it you are
297invited to try it both ways and see which the results (including, eg, binary
298size and memory usage as well as speed) suggest you use.
299
300NOTE: one major difference with mbedTLS is it does not load the system trust
301store by default.  That has advantages and disadvantages, but the disadvantage
302is you must provide the CA cert to lws built against mbedTLS for it to be able
303to validate it, ie, use -A with the test client.  The minimal test clients
304have the CA cert for warmcat.com and libwebsockets.org and use it if they see
305they were built with mbedTLS.
306
307@section optee Building for OP-TEE
308
309OP-TEE is a "Secure World" Trusted Execution Environment.
310
311Although lws is only part of the necessary picture to have an https-enabled
312TA, it does support OP-TEE as a platform and if you provide the other
313pieces, does work very well.
314
315Select it in cmake with `-DLWS_PLAT_OPTEE=1`
316
317
318@section cmco Setting compile options
319
320To set compile time flags you can either use one of the CMake gui applications
321or do it via the command line.
322
323@subsection cmcocl Command line
324
325To list available options (omit the H if you don't want the help text):
326
327    cmake -LH ..
328
329Then to set an option and build (for example turn off SSL support):
330
331    cmake -DLWS_WITH_SSL=0 ..
332or
333    cmake -DLWS_WITH_SSL:BOOL=OFF ..
334
335@subsection cmcoug Unix GUI
336
337If you have a curses-enabled build you simply type:
338(not all packages include this, my debian install does not for example).
339
340    ccmake
341
342@subsection cmcowg Windows GUI
343
344On windows CMake comes with a gui application:
345    Start -> Programs -> CMake -> CMake (cmake-gui)
346
347
348@section wolf wolfSSL/CyaSSL replacement for OpenSSL
349
350wolfSSL/CyaSSL is a lightweight SSL library targeted at embedded systems:
351https://www.wolfssl.com/wolfSSL/Products-wolfssl.html
352
353It contains a OpenSSL compatibility layer which makes it possible to pretty
354much link to it instead of OpenSSL, giving a much smaller footprint.
355
356**NOTE**: wolfssl needs to be compiled using the `--enable-opensslextra` flag for
357this to work.
358
359@section wolf1 Compiling libwebsockets with wolfSSL
360
361```
362    cmake .. -DLWS_WITH_WOLFSSL=1 \
363         -DLWS_WOLFSSL_INCLUDE_DIRS=/path/to/wolfssl \
364         -DLWS_WOLFSSL_LIBRARIES=/path/to/wolfssl/wolfssl.a ..
365```
366
367**NOTE**: On windows use the .lib file extension for `LWS_WOLFSSL_LIBRARIES` instead.
368
369@section cya Compiling libwebsockets with CyaSSL
370
371```
372    cmake .. -DLWS_WITH_CYASSL=1 \
373         -DLWS_CYASSL_INCLUDE_DIRS=/path/to/cyassl \
374         -DLWS_CYASSL_LIBRARIES=/path/to/wolfssl/cyassl.a ..
375```
376
377**NOTE**: On windows use the .lib file extension for `LWS_CYASSL_LIBRARIES` instead.
378
379@section gzip Selecting GZIP or MINIZ
380
381By default lws supports gzip when compression is needed.  But you can tell it to use
382MINIZ instead by using `-DLWS_WITH_MINIZ=1`.
383
384For native build cmake will try to find an existing libminiz.so or .a and build
385against that and the found includes automatically.
386
387For cross-build or building against local miniz, you need the following kind of
388cmake to tell it where to get miniz
389
390```
391cmake .. -DLWS_WITH_MINIZ=1 -DLWS_WITH_ZIP_FOPS=1 -DMINIZ_INCLUDE_DIRS="/projects/miniz;/projects/miniz/build" -DMINIZ_LIBRARIES=/projects/miniz/build/libminiz.so.2.1.0
392```
393
394@section esp32 Building for ESP32
395
396Building for ESP32 requires the ESP-IDF framework. It can be built under Linux, OSX or Windows (MSYS2).
397
3981. Install ESP-IDF, follow the getting started guide here - http://esp-idf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/get-started/
3992. Set ESP-IDF to last known working version (assuming ESP-IDF is in `~/esp/esp-idf`) :
400```
401    cd ~/esp/esp-idf
402    git checkout 0c50b65a34cd6b3954f7435193411a88adb49cb0
403    git submodule update --recursive
404```
4053. Add `libwebsockets` as a submodule in the `components` folder of your ESP-IDF project:
406```
407    git submodule add https://github.com/warmcat/libwebsockets.git components/libwebsockets
408```
4094. If on Windows (MSYS2) you will need to install CMake in the MSYS2 environment:
410```
411    pacman -S mingw-w64-i686-cmake
412```
413If you're on Linux or OSX ensure CMake version is at least 3.7.
414
415@section extplugins Building plugins outside of lws itself
416
417The directory ./plugin-standalone/ shows how easy it is to create plugins
418outside of lws itself.  First build lws itself with -DLWS_WITH_PLUGINS,
419then use the same flow to build the standalone plugin
420```
421    cd ./plugin-standalone
422    mkdir build
423    cd build
424    cmake ..
425    make && sudo make install
426```
427
428if you changed the default plugin directory when you built lws, you must
429also give the same arguments to cmake here (eg,
430` -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=/usr/something/else...` )
431
432Otherwise if you run lwsws or libwebsockets-test-server-v2.0, it will now
433find the additional plugin "libprotocol_example_standalone.so"
434```
435    lwsts[21257]:   Plugins:
436    lwsts[21257]:    libprotocol_dumb_increment.so
437    lwsts[21257]:    libprotocol_example_standalone.so
438    lwsts[21257]:    libprotocol_lws_mirror.so
439    lwsts[21257]:    libprotocol_lws_server_status.so
440    lwsts[21257]:    libprotocol_lws_status.so
441```
442If you have multiple vhosts, you must enable plugins at the vhost
443additionally, discovered plugins are not enabled automatically for security
444reasons.  You do this using info->pvo or for lwsws, in the JSON config.
445
446
447@section http2rp Reproducing HTTP/2 tests
448
449Enable `-DLWS_WITH_HTTP2=1` in cmake to build with http/2 support enabled.
450
451You must have built and be running lws against a version of openssl that has
452ALPN.  At the time of writing, recent distros have started upgrading to OpenSSL
4531.1+ that supports this already.  You'll know it's right by seeing
454
455```
456    lwsts[4752]:  Compiled with OpenSSL support
457    lwsts[4752]:  Using SSL mode
458    lwsts[4752]:  HTTP2 / ALPN enabled
459```
460at lws startup.
461
462Recent Firefox and Chrome also support HTTP/2 by ALPN, so these should just work
463with the test server running in -s / ssl mode.
464
465For testing with nghttp client:
466
467```
468    $ nghttp -nvas https://localhost:7681/test.html
469```
470
471Testing with h2spec (https://github.com/summerwind/h2spec)
472
473```
474        $ h2spec  -h 127.0.0.1 -p 7681 -t -k -v -o 1
475```
476
477```
478145 tests, 145 passed, 0 skipped, 0 failed
479
480```
481
482@section coverage Automated Coverage Testing
483
484./test-apps/attack.sh contains scripted tests that are the basis
485of the automated test coverage assessment available for gcc and clang.
486
487To reproduce
488
489 $ cd build
490 $ cmake .. -DLWS_WITH_GCOV=1 -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=DEBUG
491 $ ../scripts/build-gcov.sh
492 $ ../test-apps/attack.sh
493 $ ../scripts/gcov.sh
494...
495Lines executed:51.24% of 8279
496
497@section windowsprebuilt Using Windows binary builds on Appveyor
498
499The CI builds on Appveyor now produce usable binary outputs.  Visit
500
501[lws on Appveyor](https://ci.appveyor.com/project/lws-team/libwebsockets)
502
503and select one of the builds, then click on ARTIFACTS at the top right.  The zip file
504want to be unpacked into `C:\Program Files (x86)/libwebsockets`, after that, you should be able to run the test server, by running it from `bin/Release/libwebsockets-test-server.exe` and opening a browser on http://127.0.0.1:7681
505
506@section cross Cross compiling
507
508To enable cross-compiling **libwebsockets** using CMake you need to create
509a "Toolchain file" that you supply to CMake when generating your build files.
510CMake will then use the cross compilers and build paths specified in this file
511to look for dependencies and such.
512
513**Libwebsockets** includes an example toolchain file [cross-arm-linux-gnueabihf.cmake](../contrib/cross-arm-linux-gnueabihf.cmake)
514you can use as a starting point.
515
516The commandline to configure for cross with this would look like
517```
518    $ cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=/usr/lib/my-cross-root \
519         -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=../contrib/cross-arm-linux-gnueabihf.cmake \
520         -DLWS_WITHOUT_EXTENSIONS=1 -DLWS_WITH_SSL=0 \
521         -DLWS_WITH_ZIP_FOPS=0 -DLWS_WITH_ZLIB=0
522```
523The example shows how to build with no external cross lib dependencies, you
524need to provide the cross libraries otherwise.
525
526**NOTE**: start from an EMPTY build directory if you had a non-cross build in there
527    before the settings will be cached and your changes ignored.
528    Delete `build/CMakeCache.txt` at least before trying a new cmake config
529    to ensure you are really building the options you think you are.
530
531Additional information on cross compilation with CMake:
532    http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/CMake_Cross_Compiling
533
534@section cross_example Complex Cross compiling example
535
536Here are step by step instructions for cross-building the external projects needed for lws with lwsws + mbedtls as an example.
537
538In the example, my toolchain lives in `/projects/aist-tb/arm-tc` and is named `arm-linux-gnueabihf`.  So you will need to adapt those to where your toolchain lives and its name where you see them here.
539
540Likewise I do all this in /tmp but it has no special meaning, you can adapt that to somewhere else.
541
542All "foreign" cross-built binaries are sent into `/tmp/cross` so they cannot be confused for 'native' x86_64 stuff on your host machine in /usr/[local/]....
543
544## Prepare the cmake toolchain file
545
5461) `cd /tmp`
547
5482) `wget -O mytoolchainfile https://raw.githubusercontent.com/warmcat/libwebsockets/main/contrib/cross-arm-linux-gnueabihf.cmake`
549
5503) Edit `/tmp/mytoolchainfile` adapting `CROSS_PATH`, `CMAKE_C_COMPILER` and `CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER` to reflect your toolchain install dir and path to your toolchain C and C++ compilers respectively.  For my case:
551
552```
553set(CROSS_PATH /projects/aist-tb/arm-tc/)
554set(CMAKE_C_COMPILER "${CROSS_PATH}/bin/arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc")
555set(CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER "${CROSS_PATH}/bin/arm-linux-gnueabihf-g++")
556```
557
558## 1/4: Building libuv cross:
559
5601) `export PATH=/projects/aist-tb/arm-tc/bin:$PATH`  Notice there is a **/bin** on the end of the toolchain path
561
5622) `cd /tmp ; mkdir cross` we will put the cross-built libs in /tmp/cross
563
5643) `git clone https://github.com/libuv/libuv.git` get libuv
565
5664) `cd libuv`
567
5685) `./autogen.sh`
569
570```
571+ libtoolize --copy
572libtoolize: putting auxiliary files in '.'.
573libtoolize: copying file './ltmain.sh'
574libtoolize: putting macros in AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS, 'm4'.
575libtoolize: copying file 'm4/libtool.m4'
576libtoolize: copying file 'm4/ltoptions.m4'
577libtoolize: copying file 'm4/ltsugar.m4'
578libtoolize: copying file 'm4/ltversion.m4'
579libtoolize: copying file 'm4/lt~obsolete.m4'
580+ aclocal -I m4
581+ autoconf
582+ automake --add-missing --copy
583configure.ac:38: installing './ar-lib'
584configure.ac:25: installing './compile'
585configure.ac:22: installing './config.guess'
586configure.ac:22: installing './config.sub'
587configure.ac:21: installing './install-sh'
588configure.ac:21: installing './missing'
589Makefile.am: installing './depcomp'
590```
591If it has problems, you will need to install `automake`, `libtool` etc.
592
5936) `./configure  --host=arm-linux-gnueabihf --prefix=/tmp/cross`
594
5957) `make && make install` this will install to `/tmp/cross/...`
596
5978) `file /tmp/cross/lib/libuv.so.1.0.0`  Check it's really built for ARM
598```
599/tmp/cross/lib/libuv.so.1.0.0: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, ARM, EABI5 version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, BuildID[sha1]=cdde0bc945e51db6001a9485349c035baaec2b46, with debug_info, not stripped
600```
601
602## 2/4: Building zlib cross
603
6041) `cd /tmp`
605
6062) `git clone https://github.com/madler/zlib.git`
607
6083) `CC=arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc ./configure --prefix=/tmp/cross`
609```
610Checking for shared library support...
611Building shared library libz.so.1.2.11 with arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc.
612Checking for size_t... Yes.
613Checking for off64_t... Yes.
614Checking for fseeko... Yes.
615Checking for strerror... Yes.
616Checking for unistd.h... Yes.
617Checking for stdarg.h... Yes.
618Checking whether to use vs[n]printf() or s[n]printf()... using vs[n]printf().
619Checking for vsnprintf() in stdio.h... Yes.
620Checking for return value of vsnprintf()... Yes.
621Checking for attribute(visibility) support... Yes.
622```
623
6244)  `make && make install`
625```
626arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc -O3 -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE=1 -DHAVE_HIDDEN -I. -c -o example.o test/example.c
627...
628rm -f /tmp/cross/include/zlib.h /tmp/cross/include/zconf.h
629cp zlib.h zconf.h /tmp/cross/include
630chmod 644 /tmp/cross/include/zlib.h /tmp/cross/include/zconf.h
631```
632
6335) `file /tmp/cross/lib/libz.so.1.2.11`  This is just to confirm we built an ARM lib as expected
634```
635/tmp/cross/lib/libz.so.1.2.11: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, ARM, EABI5 version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, BuildID[sha1]=6f8ffef84389b1417d2fd1da1bd0c90f748f300d, with debug_info, not stripped
636```
637
638## 3/4: Building mbedtls cross
639
6401) `cd /tmp`
641
6422) `git clone https://github.com/ARMmbed/mbedtls.git`
643
6443) `cd mbedtls ; mkdir build ; cd build`
645
6463) `cmake .. -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=/tmp/mytoolchainfile -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=/tmp/cross -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RELEASE -DUSE_SHARED_MBEDTLS_LIBRARY=1`  mbedtls also uses cmake, so you can simply reuse the toolchain file you used for libwebsockets.  That is why you shouldn't put project-specific options in the toolchain file, it should just describe the toolchain.
647
6484) `make && make install`
649
6505) `file /tmp/cross/lib/libmbedcrypto.so.2.6.0`
651```
652/tmp/cross/lib/libmbedcrypto.so.2.6.0: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, ARM, EABI5 version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, BuildID[sha1]=bcca195e78bd4fd2fb37f36ab7d72d477d609d87, with debug_info, not stripped
653```
654
655## 4/4: Building libwebsockets with everything
656
6571) `cd /tmp`
658
6592) `git clone ssh://git@github.com/warmcat/libwebsockets`
660
6613) `cd libwebsockets ; mkdir build ; cd build`
662
6634)  (this is all one line on the commandline)
664```
665cmake .. -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=/tmp/mytoolchainfile \
666-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=/tmp/cross \
667-DLWS_WITH_LWSWS=1 \
668-DLWS_WITH_MBEDTLS=1 \
669-DLWS_MBEDTLS_LIBRARIES="/tmp/cross/lib/libmbedcrypto.so;/tmp/cross/lib/libmbedtls.so;/tmp/cross/lib/libmbedx509.so" \
670-DLWS_MBEDTLS_INCLUDE_DIRS=/tmp/cross/include \
671-DLWS_LIBUV_LIBRARIES=/tmp/cross/lib/libuv.so \
672-DLWS_LIBUV_INCLUDE_DIRS=/tmp/cross/include \
673-DLWS_ZLIB_LIBRARIES=/tmp/cross/lib/libz.so \
674-DLWS_ZLIB_INCLUDE_DIRS=/tmp/cross/include
675```
676
6773) `make && make install`
678
6794) `file /tmp/cross/lib/libwebsockets.so.11`
680```
681/tmp/cross/lib/libwebsockets.so.11: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, ARM, EABI5 version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, BuildID[sha1]=81e59c6534f8e9629a9fc9065c6e955ce96ca690, with debug_info, not stripped
682```
683
6845) `arm-linux-gnueabihf-objdump -p /tmp/cross/lib/libwebsockets.so.11 | grep NEEDED`  Confirm that the lws library was linked against everything we expect (libm / libc are provided by your toolchain)
685```
686  NEEDED               libz.so.1
687  NEEDED               libmbedcrypto.so.0
688  NEEDED               libmbedtls.so.10
689  NEEDED               libmbedx509.so.0
690  NEEDED               libuv.so.1
691  NEEDED               libm.so.6
692  NEEDED               libc.so.6
693```
694
695You will also find the lws test apps in `/tmp/cross/bin`... to run lws on the target you will need to copy the related things from /tmp/cross... all the .so from /tmp/cross/lib and anything from /tmp/cross/bin you want.
696
697@section mem Memory efficiency
698
699Embedded server-only configuration without extensions (ie, no compression
700on websocket connections), but with full v13 websocket features and http
701server, built on ARM Cortex-A9:
702
703Update at 8dac94d (2013-02-18)
704```
705    $ ./configure --without-client --without-extensions --disable-debug --without-daemonize
706
707    Context Creation, 1024 fd limit[2]:   16720 (includes 12 bytes per fd)
708    Per-connection [3]:                      72 bytes, +1328 during headers
709
710    .text	.rodata	.data	.bss
711    11512	2784	288	4
712```
713This shows the impact of the major configuration with/without options at
71413ba5bbc633ea962d46d using Ubuntu ARM on a PandaBoard ES.
715
716These are accounting for static allocations from the library elf, there are
717additional dynamic allocations via malloc.  These are a bit old now but give
718the right idea for relative "expense" of features.
719
720Static allocations, ARM9
721
722|                                | .text   | .rodata | .data | .bss |
723|--------------------------------|---------|---------|-------|------|
724| All (no without)               | 35024   | 9940    | 336   | 4104 |
725| without client                 | 25684   | 7144    | 336   | 4104 |
726| without client, exts           | 21652   | 6288    | 288   | 4104 |
727| without client, exts, debug[1] | 19756   | 3768    | 288   | 4104 |
728| without server                 | 30304   | 8160    | 336   | 4104 |
729| without server, exts           | 25382   | 7204    | 288   | 4104 |
730| without server, exts, debug[1] | 23712   | 4256    | 288   | 4104 |
731
732[1] `--disable-debug` only removes messages below `lwsl_notice`.  Since that is
733the default logging level the impact is not noticeable, error, warn and notice
734logs are all still there.
735
736[2] `1024` fd per process is the default limit (set by ulimit) in at least Fedora
737and Ubuntu.  You can make significant savings tailoring this to actual expected
738peak fds, ie, at a limit of `20`, context creation allocation reduces to `4432 +
739240 = 4672`)
740
741[3] known header content is freed after connection establishment
742