libactor

Libactor is an implementation of the actor model for C. It uses libdispatch for concurrency and is designed for distributed programming.

Features

• Process creation with C blocks
• Distributed message passing
• Process supervision

System Requirement

Libactor has been tested in:

• OS X: 10.7 64bit
• FreeBSD: 9.2 64bit
• Ubuntu Linux: 12.04 64bit

Libactor uses libdispatch and makes masivly use of the block syntax for C. So it needs to be compiled with clang/llvm.

Install

To install libactor make shure libdispatch is installed. On OS X it is included since 10.6. On Linux there are several ports. On Debian based distributions simply type:

sudo apt-get install libdispatch-dev

Install of libactor:

sudo make install

Example

To build the example on OS X type:

clang -o example example.c -lactor

On Linux:

clang -fblocks -o example example.c -lactor -ldispatch -lBlocksRuntime

To be continued

More precise documentation will come...