What is it?

The Packet Design Embedded Library (libpdel) is a C library containing an assorted collection of code useful for developing applications, especially for embedded systems.

Significant features include:

• An HTTP server and client library supporting SSL, XML-RPC, and ``servlets.''
• Introspection library for C data structures allowing runtime access to fields by name.
• PPP server library with L2TP and PPTP support.
• Automated encoding of C data structures into XML or machine independent binary encoding.
• Application configuration framework
• Template processing library with user-definable functions
• System networking management (interfaces, routing table)
• Heap allocation accounting
• Event library

Note, some features are not supported on Linux.

Supported Platforms

The PDEL library runs and has been tested on FreeBSD and RedHat Linux. Other similar platforms should work.

The source distribution includes a Makefile and a GNUmakefile. Typing ``make'' on a BSD-ish platform should automatically choose the former, which compiles in certain BSD-specific features, while Linux-ish platforms with gmake installed as the standard make should automatically use the latter.

Documentation

The PDEL library is documented in a series of man pages. Here is the top level man page.

Getting it

PDEL is now hosted on SourceForge: click here for the project page.

If you're running FreeBSD, your best bet is to use the FreeBSD ports system to install libpdel. Click here for the FreeBSD port of libpdel and a list of other ports that use it.

XML-RPC

If you got here from the XML-RPC implementations page and want to know more about the XML-RPC support, here's what you need to know:

• XML-RPC client support is provided by the http_xml_send_xmlrpc(3) function.
• XML-RPC server support is provided by the http_servlet_xmlrpc(3) HTTP ``servlet.''
• A XML-RPC server test program that passes the XML-RPC validator is in the structs/xmlrpc-test directory in the source tree.