RIST is the Reliable Internet Stream Transport. Its basic library and tools are in project librist.

This repository contains scripts to build librist installers for Linux and Windows.

This repository does not contain any third-party source code, neither librist nor any of its dependencies. It contains only scripts and configuration files which download third-party source code when necessary and build it.

Subdirectories:

• deb: Build on apt-based distros (Debian, Ubuntu, Rapsbian, Mint, etc.)
• rpm: Build on rpm-based distros (Red Hat, CentOS, Fedora, Oracle, etc.)
• win: Build on Windows, using Visual Studio.

To build the RIST installers on a given platform, run the script build.sh or build.ps1 in the subdirectory for this platform.

Before building the RIST installers for the first time, make sure to run the script install-prerequisites.sh or install-prerequisites.ps1 to install the required building tools.

Temporary subdirectories, created by the scripts, not archived in the repo:

• installers: All binary installers are stored here.
• build: Used to compile RIST and build the installers.

On Linux, the package is named librist-(version).deb or .rpm, depending on the distro. The package can be installed using the dpkg or rpm command, again depending on the distro.

As of version 0.2.8 of librist, many Linux distros now include librist packages. Binary packages for Linux are no longer provided with the releases of this project, but scripts to build them remain available.

On Windows, the executable installer is named librist-(version).exe. Simply run it to install librist.

If automation is required (in a CI/CD pipeline for instance), the sample PowerShell script win/install-librist.ps1 can be freely copied in your project. Run it in the pre-build phase of your CI workflow. The script automatically downloads and installs the latest version of librist for Windows.

After installing the librist binary, an environment variable named LIBRIST is defined to the installation root (typically C:\Program Files (x86)\librist).

In this directory, there are Visual Studio property files to reference either the librist DLL or static library from the application. Simply reference the corresponding property file in your Visual Studio project to use librist.

You can also do that manually by editing the application project file (the XML file named with a .vcxproj extension). Add one of the following lines just before the end of the project file. Select the one you need to reference either the librist DLL or static library.

<Import Project="$(LIBRIST)\librist-dll.props"/>
<Import Project="$(LIBRIST)\librist-static.props"/>

This project does not provide binary packages for macOS. On this platform, librist is installed using Homebrew, the package manager for open-source projects on macOS.

Use command:

brew install librist