The main objective of the EXIP project is to provide a C library for parsing and serialization of Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) streams which is a W3C standard. The focus is portability and efficiency for embedded systems development. The library features an efficient, typed, and low-level API. The library should also work for enterprises that want to use C or C++ languages.
- The web site and documenation is available at https://ekrich.github.io/exip/.
We are working to improve this project so it can be used more widely. Quite a bit of work has been done to resurrect the project with documentation and code improvements. Contributions are encouraged but can be slow to adopt based on time available, level of effort, and knowledge of the code base.
The code was pulled from the SourceForge SVN repository with all commits and tags. There was one outstanding issue that has been fixed. The project originally supported the Contiki embedded IoT platform and now compiles on the next generation Contiki-ng project.
Formerly this project was not maintained on SourceForge. All historical information is found there as well as this original README.txt which is in HTML format.
The library is highly portable C code and supports the platforms using CI as shown in the next table.
| OS | Works | Version(s) | Arch(s) | Compiler(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| macOS | ✅ | 13.6.x | arm64/aarch64 | gcc (clang) |
| Linux | ✅ | Ubuntu 22.0.4 | x86_64 | gcc |
| Windows | ✅ | Visual Studio 2022 | x86/x86_64 | cl |
| Contiki-ng | ✅ | latest | ARM Cortex-M3 (32-bit) | gcc (c11) |
- The build system calls
gcc. - macOS system compiler
gccis aliased toclang. clangshould also work on Linux.- Windows default creates a 32bit x86 executable.
- We now use C99 standard since we refactored to use
bool. - Contiki-ng build uses the C11 standard.
Please clone the repository or download a version by clicking on the Releases or Tags above.
All the documentation and the User Guide is available via the web site found at https://ekrich.github.io/exip/.
See the additional tool installation and setup documentation for Developers.
- Current license: Apache License, Version 2.0
- Original license: EISLAB