SiwenZhang / libactor

Implementation of an erlang style actor model using libdispatch

libactor

Libactor is an implementation of the actor model for C. It uses libdispatch for concurrency and is designed for distributed programming.

Features

• Process creation with C blocks
• Distributed message passing
• Process supervision

System Requirement

Libactor has been tested in:

• OS X: 10.7 64bit
• FreeBSD: 9.2 64bit
• Ubuntu Linux: 12.04 64bit

Libactor uses libdispatch and makes masivly use of the block syntax for C. So it needs to be compiled with clang/llvm.

Install

To install libactor make shure libdispatch is installed. On OS X it is included since 10.6. On Linux there are several ports. On Debian based distributions simply type:

sudo apt-get install libdispatch-dev

Install of libactor:

sudo make install

Example

To build the example on OS X type:

clang -o example example.c -lactor

On Linux:

clang -fblocks -o example example.c -lactor -ldispatch -lBlocksRuntime

To be continued

More precise documentation will come...