Flusspferd

Flusspferd: Javascript bindings for C++, a Javascript interpreter and shell, and a CommonJS module system supporting native C++ modules. Flusspferd includes a few Javascript classes and modules: binary blobs, cURL, GMP and others. It is designed to support easy embedding of Javascript in C++ - and vice versa. It supports Spidermonkey as its backend, and possibly support for other engines will be added later.

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Flusspferd is licensed under the MIT license (open source).

Flusspferd compiles and runs on POSIX OSes such as Mac OS X and Linux, and also on Windows via MinGW — check the releases section for links to MinGW bundles.

In case you wonder, "Flusspferd" is a German word which translates to hippo. The reason we chose this word is that a book on Javascript shows a hippo on its cover, and Javascript has this animal naming tradition: Spidermonkey, Rhino, Squirrelfish and now Flusspferd.

You don't know how to pronounce the name "Flusspferd"? Easy as pie! At least for Germans. The rest of you shall get an explanation. Much like the English language's equivalent word "hippopotamus", the word Flusspferd is composed of the words for river (Fluss) and horse (Pferd). Pronounce "Flusspferd" as if it were two words, "Fluss Pferd", but with only a very short pause between the words. If you want to pronounce it properly, start with "floos ferd". Now, learn how to use the "Pf" sound (with sound examples!). "Fluss" is pronounced with a short "U". Well, that's at least my stab at it. I'm no language teacher, so bear with me.

The easiest way to get Flusspferd is to get one of our releases from Sourceforge. If you want the most recent sources, you can either fetch the code from our git repository:

$ git clone git://github.com/Flusspferd/flusspferd.git

or download a snapshot from github.

Another very interesting possibility is forking (direct action!) our github repository, which allows you to publish changes easily and optionally send them to us ‒ without sending patches or emails.

Read the build instructions on how to build Flusspferd and its requirements.

• Modules
• System/1.0
• Unit Testing/1.0
• Binary/B (proposal)
• Encodings/A (proposal)
• Filesystem/A/0 (proposal)

• gmp - Bignum arithmetic. Bindings for GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library (GMP)
• sqlite3 - single-file, embeddable relational database: SQLite.
• curl - HTTP/network access via cURL.
• xml - XML and HMTL (tag soup) parsing and DOM Level 2 core.

• SDL-Flusspferd - bindings for SDL.
• Juice - a webframework based on Flusspferd.
• Zest - Simple HTTP server that speaks JSGI (primarily for use with Juice)
• MongoDB-Flusspferd - bindings for MongoDB.
• http-fetch - User friendly http fetcher module (based on the cURL module).

Flusspferd comes with online documentation which is generated for the current release (0.9):

• Tutorials,
• C++ documentation,
• Javascript documentation.

We also have online documentation for git master (the next release) and previous releases:

• Release 0.8
• Release 0.7

You can find Flusspferd on

• github (source code repository),
• our Redmine (issue tracking and version planning),
• cia (announces commits),
• twitter news (news),
• twitter commits (announces commits),
• freshmeat.net (release announcements),
• ohloh (code statistics and analysis)

Many of Flusspferd's core Javascript classes are based on the CommonJS standardisation project (previously: ServerJS).

There are some other projects that have similar (but different) goals than Flusspferd:

• SpiderApe, C++ wrappers for some Spidermonkey classes. Not actively developed anymore.
• jslibs, extensions for Spidermonkey, written in C, license GPL 2.0.
• cproxyv8: "provides an easy way to expose properties and methods from C++ classes to Java Script using V8 engine without the need to specify callbacks for each item."
• v8cgi: "Small set of C++ and JS libraries, allowing coder to use JS as a server-side HTTP processing language." For v8.
• narwhal: a somewhat portable implementation of CommonJS.
• node.js: evented javascript.
• MonkeyScript, LGPL 3.

We have a discussion group / mailing list on Google Groups.

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Alternatively, you can find us on IRC in #flusspferd on freenode. Use Freenode's Webchat or Java client to connect to the channel if you don't have an IRC client on your computer.

Please report bugs in Flusspferd on our Redmine tracker or on our Google Group.