This is the support library for many of SnertSoft's software (BarricadeMX, milters) and not really intended for use in third party projects. It is a collection of APIs and tools that have evolved over many years. This library is little short on explicit documentation. Most of the documentation that does exist is found in the C header files and the command line usage of the tools and test programs.

The library should build for any POSIX conforming system:

    BSD: FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD
    Linux: CentOS, Debian, RHEL, Ubuntu
    Others: AIX, Solaris

The primary development environment is currently NetBSD and the library is not regularly tested against other OSes. Sometimes OSes or development introduce changes that break ./configure and/or subsequent compile/link. Usually this is a case of missing or relocated headers and/or libraries. Please submit a bug report with the ./configure output and the config.log when this occurs.

    mkdir -p com/snert/src
    cd com/snert/src
    git clone https://github.com/SirWumpus/libsnert.git lib
    cd lib
    autoconf -f             # If ./configure is missing or out of date.
    ./configure --help
    ./configure [options]
    make links              # Need only happen once.
    make

NOTE: LibSnert did support Windows native builds using Cygwin / MingW, but that has not been maintained in a long time and would require some work to restore. LibSnert has yet to be built against the Windows Linux subsystem.

The ./configure script should detect the presence of optional headers and libraries. The ./configure script summary will show what was found. Some developer packages (-dev or -devel) may need to be installed:

• Lua support is not required, as it was only needed for some incomplete experimental projects.

• OpenSSL support, used by BarricadeMX, install the openssl-dev package.

• SnertSoft milters, install sendmail-dev or milter-dev package. Berkeley DB support is not required (though historical and/or SQLite3 can be used), unless you want to share your mail system .db files with the milters or BarricadeMX, in which case you will need to install the dbX-X.Y-dev package matching the X.Y version linked to the Sendmail or Postfix binaries. Use ldd to determine which Berkeley DB version is linked.

There are also handful of command-line interface tools that can optionally be installed, such is ansi, cipher, mime, pdq, show, spf, uri, etc. Please see the tool summary. Rather than install them all, probably better to pick and choose and install by hand.

    $ sudo make install

When building software using my library, add the equivalent -I, -L, and -l options to your compile and link lines:

    -I$(path_to)/com/snert/include
    -L$(path_to)/com/snert/lib -lsnert

• LibSnert 1.x tarball includes a copy of the SQLite3 tarball in order to ensure that the library is built with threading support required by BarricadeMX. If your OS provides a SQLite3 pre-built package that enables thread support, then you can specify ./configure --without-sqlite3 to skip LibSnert's version.

• The com/snert/* structure is an artifact from building alongside Snert's TickCafe (a cyber cafe access control system for Windows 2000) written in Java with some Windows JNI support.

• Currently only a static library is built, no shared library yet.

Cygwin Unix tool chain & environment for Windows.
http://cygwin.org/

Lua
http://www.lua.org/

SQLite3
https://www.sqlite.org/