From: Isaac Dupree (isaacdupree_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-08-03 07:42:48
What I want: a (open-source,
OS-portable) way to advertise
my game on a local LAN, so
local players can play with
each other easily ("Zeroconf
networking"). It looks like
MDNS/DNS-SD is the most
sensible choice; but it needs
(or greatly benefits from)
interfacing with whatever the
system is running (e.g. Avahi
on Linux, and I guess Bonjour
on Mac, and I'm not sure quite
how people manage to use it on
Windows). My current
networking is based on
Boost.Asio, which I'm pretty
happy with as a socket library
(yay! finally learning how to
use sockets!). Does this
MDNS/DNS-SD need support from
Boost.Asio, or else what's a
good way to go about using it?
Maybe to use Bonjour's
interface because Avahi
apparently implements a
compatibility layer for that?
(P.S. Although the
actually-asynchronous IO was a
little confusing. With my
Haskell background, I
eventually realized that many
of the examples were highly
obfuscated versions of lambda
functions (continuations)
defined within other
functions, because C++ doesn't
yet support such things.)
-Isaac