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@@ -1,6 +1,36 @@ -Run "autoreconf -fi" to create configure. +About +===== -This is still alpha software. Below we list things that should be +libmicrohttpd is a library written in C that provides a compact +API and implementation of an HTTP 1.1 web server. libmicrohttpd +only implements the HTTP 1.1 protocol. The main application must +still provide the content. + + +Installation +============ + +If you are using Subversion, run "autoreconf -fi" to create configure. + +In order to run the testcases, you need a recent version of libcurl. +libcurl is not required if you just want to install the library. + + +Configure options +================= + +Especially for development, use "--enable-messages" to enable error +reporting (and use MHD_USE_DEBUG). Error reporting is not enabled by +default to reduce the size of the library (error messages take +space!). If you are concerned about space, you should set "CFLAGS" to +"-Os --fomit-frame-pointer" to have gcc generate tight code. The +resulting binary should be less than 25k (on x86). + + +Development Status +================== + +This is a beta release. Below we list things that should be implemented (in order of importance) before we can claim to be reasonably complete. #XXXX refers to the respective Mantis bug report (or feature request). ARCH indicates that implementing this feature |