As libsocket is built as shared library, it's not really hard to use.

Including the header files

The header files are placed by default to /usr/include/libsocket (you may want to change that, especially on BSD). This directory should be contained in your compiler's include path, so just say (if you want to build an application using UNIX client stream sockets):

# include <libsocket/unixclientdgram.hpp>

The classes are contained in these header files:

CLASS                   HEADER FILE
----------------------------------------------------
inet_stream             inetclientstream.hpp
inet_stream_server      inetserverstream.hpp
inet_dgram_client       inetclientdgram.hpp
inet_dgram_server       inetserverdgram.hpp

unix_dgram_client       unixclientdgram.hpp
unix_dgram_server       unixserverdgram.hpp
unix_stream_client      unixclientstream.hpp
unix_stream_server      unixserverstream.hpp

selectset               select.hpp
epollset                epoll.hpp

[libinetsocket]         libinetsocket.h
[libunixsocket]         libunixsocket.h

Linking your apps with libsocket

If you let the Makefile place the shared object to a default library path like /usr/lib, /lib, /usr/local/lib, you need to link your programs with the following switches:

For libsocket: $CC -lsocket ...
For libsocket++: $CXX -lsocket++ ...