Embedthis GoAhead Enterprise Edition
The most popular little embedded web server.
Branches
The repository has several branches:
- master - Most recent release of the software.
- dev - Current ongoing development.
- X.X - Archived prior release branches for maintenance.
Licensing
See LICENSE.md and https://www.embedthis.com/goahead/licensing.html for details.
Documentation
See https://www.embedthis.com/goahead/doc/index.html.
Building from Source
You can build GoAhead with make, Visual Studio, Xcode or MakeMe.
The IDE projects and Makefiles will build with SSL using the MbedTLS TLS stack. To build with CGI, OpenSSL or other modules, read the projects/README.md for details.
To Build with Make
Linux or MacOS
make
or to see the commands as they are invoked:
make SHOW=1
You can pass make variables to tailor the build. For a list of variables:
make help
To run
make run
Windows
make
The make.bat script runs projects/windows.bat to locate the Visual Studio compiler. If you have setup your CMD environment for Visual Studio by running the Visual Studio vsvarsall.bat, then that edition of Visual Studio will be used. If not, windows.bat will attempt to locate the most recent Visual Studio version.
To Build with Visual Studio
Open the solution file at:
projects/goahead-windows-default.sln
Then select Build -> Solution.
To run the debugger, right-click on the "goahead" project and set it as the startup project. Then modify the project properties and set the Debugging configuration properties. Set the working directory to be:
$(ProjectDir)\..\..\test
Set the arguments to be -v
Then start debugging.
To Build with Xcode.
Open the solution file:
projects/goahead-macosx-default.sln
Choose Product -> Scheme -> Edit Scheme, and select "Build" on the left of the dialog. Click the "+" symbol at the bottom in the center and then select all targets to be built. Before leaving this dialog, set the debugger options by selecting "Run/Debug" on the left hand side. Under "Info" set the Executable to be "goahead", set the launch arguments to be "-v" and set the working directory to be an absolute path to the "./test" directory in the goahead source. The click "Close" to save.
Click Project -> Build to build.
Click Project -> Run to run.
To build with MakeMe
To install MakeMe, download it from https://www.embedthis.com/makeme/.
./configure
me
For a list of configure options:
./configure --help
To run
me run
To install
If you have built from source using Make or MakeMe, you can install the software using:
sudo make install
or
sudo me install
To uninstall
sudo make uninstall
or
sudo me uninstall
To test
me test