The EmPOWER eNB protocols is a library containing the protocols definitions and parsers used to format or decode messages exchanged with the controller. This component is usually included by the eNB Agent to correctly send and receive messages from EmPOWER Runtime application.
This software has been developed and tested for Linux.
In order to successfully build EMProto you need:
- Linux standard build suite (GCC, LD, AR, etc...).
In any Linux distribution (following the example for Ubuntu distribution), this can be accomplished using the terminal with the following command:
sudo apt-get install build-essential
You will need to log-in or perform the operation with an user having rights to install new software.
Building the protocols is quick and easy. The standard procedure assume that you want to install the software and the necessary headers in the system default directories /usr/include/emage for headers, and /usr/lib for the library shared objects. You can always personalize such installation by modifying the INCLDIR and INSTDIR variable present in the Makefile present in the root directory of the repository.
After having setup the required paths for installation, run (in the root directory) the following command to build the software:
make
As previously said, the software will be installed in your system alongside other libraries. To change this behavior you can modify the variables present in the makefile (see build instruction).
After having built the software, to install it run the following command:
sudo make install
Again, as for any other installation, you will need superuser rights in order to perform such changes on the filesystem.
You can always undo installation operations sometimes. In order to do so a "cleaning" operation is also present as a makefile option. This uninstalling steps revert the modification done by the installation stage, completely cleaning your Linux from the software:
sudo make uninstall
Again, as for any other installation, you will need superuser rights in order to perform such changes on the filesystem.
The library has been improved in order to include bindings of various programming languages. The bindings aim to provide an interface to the proto library (written in C) to the environment provided by other languages.
These python bindings have been included to extend the functionality of the enb-proto library.
The code is released under the Apache License, Version 2.0.