Linux
Here's how you can install Crow on your favorite GNU/Linux distro.
Getting Crow
Requirements
- C++ compiler with at least C++11 support.
- boost library & development headers (1.64 or later).
- (optional) ZLib for HTTP Compression.
- (optional) OpenSSL for HTTPS support.
- (optional) CMake and Python3 to build tests and/or examples.
Note
Crow's CI uses g++-9.3
and clang-7.0
running on AMD64 (x86_64) and ARM64v8 architectures.
Using a package Manager
You can install Crow on GNU/Linux as a pre-made package
Simply download Crow's .deb
file from the release section and Install it.
Crow is available for Arch based distros through the AUR package crow
.
Release package
Crow provides an archive containing the framework and CMake files, just copy the include
folder to /usr/local/include
and lib
folder to /usr/local/lib
.
You can also download the crow_all.h
file and simply include that into your project.
Installing from source
Using CMake
- Download Crow's source code (Either through Github's UI or by using
git clone https://github.com/CrowCpp/Crow.git
). - Run
mkdir build
inside of crow's source directory. - Navigate to the new "build" directory and run the following:
cmake .. -DCROW_BUILD_EXAMPLES=OFF -DCROW_BUILD_TESTS=OFF
- Run
make install
.
Note
You can ignore -DCROW_BUILD_EXAMPLES=OFF -DCROW_BUILD_TESTS=OFF
if you want to build the Examples and Unit Tests.
Note
You can uninstall Crow at a later time using make uninstall
.
Manually
Crow can be installed manually on your Linux computer.
Multiple header files
Copy Crow's include
directory to your project's include
directory.
Copy Crow's include
directory to the /usr/local/include
directory.
Single header (crow_all.h)
Warning
crow_all.h
is recommended only for small, possibly single source file projects, and ideally should not be installed on your system.
navigate to the scripts
directory and run ./merge_all.py ../include crow_all.h
. This will generate a crow_all.h
file that you can use in your projects.
Note
You can also include or exclude middlewares from your crow_all.h
by using -i
or -e
followed by the middleware header file names separated by a comma (e.g. merge_all.py ../include crow_all.h -e cookie_parser
to exclude the cookie parser middleware).
Compiling your project
Using CMake
In order to get your CMake project to work with Crow, all you need are the following lines in your CMakeLists.txt:
find_package(Crow)
target_link_libraries(your_project PUBLIC Crow::Crow)
Directly using a compiler
All you need to do is run the following command:
g++ main.cpp -lpthread
-DCROW_ENABLE_DEBUG
, -DCROW_ENABLE_COMPRESSION -lz
for HTTP Compression, or -DCROW_ENABLE_SSL -lssl
for HTTPS support, or even replace g++ with clang++.
Warning
If you're using a version of boost prior to 1.69, you'll need to add the argument -lboost_system
in order for you Crow application to compile correctly.