Apache Portable Runtime

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Apache Portable Runtime

Developer(s)	Apache Software Foundation
Stable release	1.3.5 / 2009-06-03; 36 days ago
Written in	C/C++
Operating system	Cross-platform
Development status	Active
Type	Development Library
License	Apache License 2.0
Website	http://apr.apache.org

The Apache Portable Runtime (APR) is a supporting library for the Apache web server. It provides a set of APIs that map to the underlying operating system. Where the OS doesn't support a particular function, APR will provide a replacement. Thus, the APR can be used to make a program truly portable across platforms.

APR was originally a part of Apache HTTP Server, but has now been spun off into a separate project of the Apache Software Foundation, and is used by other applications to achieve platform independence.

The range of platform-independent functionality provided by APR includes:

• Memory allocation and memory pool functionality
• Atomic operations
• Dynamic library handling
• File I/O
• Command argument parsing
• Locking
• Hash tables and arrays
• Mmap functionality
• Network sockets and protocols
• Thread, process and mutex functionality
• Shared memory functionality
• Time routines
• User and group ID services

Contents 1 Installation 2 Similar projects 3 External links 4 References

[edit] Installation

A very simple tutorial that explains how to compile and install Apache Portable Runtime (apr) on Linux can be found here.

[edit] Similar projects

• Glib provides similar functionality. It supports many more data structures and OS-independent functions, but fewer IPC-related functions (local and global locking, dynamic loading, or shared memory management are not provided).
• NSPR is a cross-platform abstraction library used by the Mozilla project. It is used by another subproject of Mozilla XPFE to provide cross-platform graphical user interface (GUI) functionality.
• Adaptive Communication Environment (ACE) is an object-oriented library written in C++ similar in functionality to APR. It is widely deployed in commercial products^[1].
• commonc++ is a cross-platform C++ class library for systems programming, with much of the same functionality as APR.
• WxWidgets is an object-oriented cross-platform GUI library that also provides abstraction classes for database communication, IPC and networking functionality.
• Qt is a cross-platform application development framework with similar features and can also be used for GUI development.

[edit] External links

• The APR website
• The current APR programming documentation
• The Apache Software Foundation website
• APR programming tutorial
• APR wikibooks tutorial (inactive)

[edit] References

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