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Thanks for all your answers, I'm giving it a try and will let you know if it worked

We build Ice for C++ with iOS, in fact Ice for Swift and Ice for Objective-C use the C++ runtime, so this should work out of the box. See https://github.com/zeroc-ice/ice/tree/3.7/cpp#ios

For Android I don't expect any major issues, it should be similar to other Linux builds, but you might encounter some issues related to the specific toolchain and 3rd party dependencies.

For webassembly it might be doable but it is going to need more work, not sure how web assembly deal with multi-threaded libraries like Ice, or with the TCP network layer, this would need more research.

Cheers,
Jose

Thank you very much.

The Slice compilers are statically linked with Slice library because the Slice library is for internal usage, our distributions don't ship with a Slice library.

The distributions provide the static libraries required for building user applications, if you want to build a static linked executable that uses Ice you have all the required static libraries.

For the rest of executables we never saw the need to link them statically and supporting this configuration would make the build more complicated.

I think you will have to at least remove or add a condition to the EnsureNuGetPackageBuildImports targets, so that they are skip with your build.

https://github.com/zeroc-ice/ice/blob/b962f8f5ea4e3e388595adfa7499d16ea92df6f0/cpp/src/slice2cs/msbuild/slice2cs.vcxproj#L143

You also need to remove the NuGetRestore dependency on the build targets https://github.com/zeroc-ice/ice/blob/b962f8f5ea4e3e388595adfa7499d16ea92df6f0/cpp/msbuild/ice.proj#L244

It wouldn't be too complicated to add a MSBuild property to support both vcpkg and NuGet builds

Hi,

I saw in other posts that it is possible to implement Ice on a different lay of transport.
Unix domain sockets particularly interest me, because if I use Ice, I use it locally. And, as I have seen with omniORB or Thrift, unix sockets seem to be faster than TCP. So I would like to use unix sockets with Ice.
The problem is that I am a beginner, only a second year's student. I read that we can be helped by the source code which is already present, with TcpAcceptor, TcpConnector... etc. But could you give me a little bit more details about that ? The steps to follow ?

Thank you.

Hi Diego,

The performance for these two calls should be very similar, one thing to keep in mind oneway->call(); will throw an exception if there is an error sending, begin_call, waitForSent or waitForComplete will not.

If you want to handle exception after waitForSent you have to add an additional call to throwLocalException()

auto t = twoway->begin_call();
t->waitForSent();
t->throwLocalException();

Otherwise, if you want to handle exceptions after completion call the end method twoway->end_call(t) to wait for the completion and this will report any exceptions.