TFTP Common

A simple header-only Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) packets parsing and serialization library.

RFC 1350 (TFTP Protocol Revision 2) compilant, RFC 2347 (TFTP Option Extension) support.

Supported platforms

Platform name	Windows	Linux	MacOS
Minimum required version	98	---	---

Dependencies

Dependency name	Minimum required version	Ubuntu 22.04
C++	C++17	sudo apt-get install build-essential
Doxygen (optional)	---	sudo apt-get install doxygen
ClangFormat (development, optional)	---	sudo apt-get install clang-format

Quick start

1. Download and install CMake. Version 3.12.0 is the minimum required.
2. Open a shell. Your development tools must be reachable from this shell through the PATH environment variable.
3. Create a build directory, go to this directory:

mkdir build
cd build

4. Execute this command in the shell replacing path/to/tftp_common/source/root with the path to the root of your tftp_common source tree:

cmake path/to/tftp_common/source/root

5. After CMake has finished running, proceed to use IDE project files, or start the build from the build directory:

cmake --build .

The --build option tells cmake to invoke the underlying build tool (make, ninja, xcodebuild, msbuild, etc.)

The underlying build tool can be invoked directly, of course, but the --build option is portable.

6. After tftp_common has finished building, install it from the build directory:

cmake --build . --target install

The --target option with install parameter in addition to the --build option tells cmake to build the install target.

Options and variables

Variables customize how the build will be generated. Options are boolean variables, with possible values ON/OFF. Options and variables are defined on the CMake command line like this:

cmake -DVARIABLE=value path/to/tftp_common/source

CMake variables

• BUILD_TESTS: BOOL

Adds test build targets as a dependencies of the default build target. Defaults to OFF.

• BUILD_EXAMPLES: BOOL

Adds examples build targets as a dependencies of the default build target. Defaults to OFF.

CMake targets

• The format target (i.e ninja format) will run clang-format on all project files
• The check-format target (i.e ninja check-format) will verify that project's code follows formatting conventions
• The docs target (i.e ninja docs) will generate documentation using doxygen