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@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +Welcome to serf, a high-performance asynchronous HTTP client library. + +The serf library is a C-based HTTP client library built upon the Apache +Portable Runtime (APR) library. It multiplexes connections, running the +read/write communication asynchronously. Memory copies and transformations are +kept to a minimum to provide high performance operation. + + * Status: http://code.google.com/p/serf/wiki/ + * Site: http://code.google.com/p/serf/ + * Code: http://serf.googlecode.com/svn/ + * Issues: http://code.google.com/p/serf/issues/list + * Mail: serf-dev@googlegroups.com + * People: Justin Erenkrantz, Greg Stein + +---- + +Quick guide for the impatient + + (Unix) + % ./configure + % make + % make install + +---- + +Building serf from a Subversion checkout (non-packaged releases) + +We suggest that you try out 'serfmake'. + + % ./serfmake --prefix=/usr/local/serf --with-apr=/usr/local/apr install + +If you want to use the autoconf build system and are using a Subversion +checkout, you need to run buildconf and have APR and APR-util sources handy. + + % ./buildconf --with-apr=/path/to/apr --with-apr-util=/path/to/apr-util + (By default, buildconf will look in . and ../ for apr and apr-util.) + +Then, you can use ./configure, make, etc. |