[lldb-dev] [llvm-dev] HTTP library in LLVM

[Jonas Devlieghere via lldb-dev]

On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 4:38 PM Petr Hosek via llvm-dev <
llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

> There are several options, I've looked at couple of them and the one I
> like the most so far is https://github.com/yhirose/cpp-httplib for a few
> reasons:
>
> * It's MIT licensed.
> * It supports Linux, macOS and Windows (and presumably other platforms).
> * It doesn't have any dependencies, it can optionally use zlib and OpenSSL.
> * It's a modern C++11 implementation, the entire library is a single
> header.
>

This looks appealing indeed. Out of curiosity, what are the other
alternatives you considered?


>
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 4:31 PM Eric Christopher <echristo at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> +LLDB Dev <lldb-dev at lists.llvm.org> as well for visibility. +Pavel Labath
>> <labath at google.com> since he and I have talked about such things.
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 7:26 PM David Blaikie <dblaikie at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> [+debug info folks, just as FYI - since the immediate question's more
>>> about 3rd party library deps than the nuances of DWARF, etc]
>>>
>>> I'd imagine avoiding writing such a thing from scratch would be
>>> desirable, but that the decision might depend somewhat on what libraries
>>> out there you/we would consider including, what their licenses and further
>>> dependencies are.
>>>
>>> On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 4:22 PM Petr Hosek via llvm-dev <
>>> llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> We're considering implementing [debuginfod](
>>>> https://sourceware.org/elfutils/Debuginfod.html) library in LLVM.
>>>> Initially, we'd like to start with the client implementation, which would
>>>> enable debuginfod support in tools like llvm-symbolizer, but later we'd
>>>> also like to provide LLVM-based debuginfod server implementation.
>>>>
>>>> debuginfod uses HTTP and so we need an HTTP library, ideally one that
>>>> supports both client and server.
>>>>
>>>> The question is, would it be acceptable to use an existing C++ HTTP
>>>> library or would it be preferred to implement an HTTP library in LLVM from
>>>> scratch?
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