sdk-ng VS C++ REST SDK

# Basic configuration for Zephyr development. { pkgs ? import (fetchTarball "https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/archive/refs/tags/23.05.tar.gz") { } }: let pp = pkgs.python3.pkgs; imgtool = pp.buildPythonPackage rec { version = "1.10.0"; pname = "imgtool"; src = pp.fetchPypi { inherit pname version; sha256 = "sha256-A7NOdZNKw9lufEK2vK8Rzq9PRT98bybBfXJr0YMQS0A="; }; propagatedBuildInputs = with pp; [ cbor2 click intelhex cryptography ]; doCheck = false; pythonImportsCheck = [ "imgtool" ]; }; python-packages = pkgs.python3.withPackages (p: with p; [ autopep8 pyelftools pyyaml pykwalify canopen packaging progress psutil anytree intelhex west imgtool cryptography intelhex click cbor2 # For mcuboot CI toml # For twister tabulate ply # For TFM pyasn1 graphviz jinja2 requests beautifulsoup4 # These are here because pip stupidly keeps trying to install # these in /nix/store. wcwidth sortedcontainers ]); # Build the Zephyr SDK as a nix package. new-zephyr-sdk-pkg = { stdenv , fetchurl , which , python38 , wget , file , cmake , libusb , autoPatchelfHook }: let version = "0.15.0"; arch = "arm"; sdk = fetchurl { url = "https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/sdk-ng/releases/download/v${version}/zephyr-sdk-${version}_linux-x86_64_minimal.tar.gz"; hash = "sha256-dn+7HVBtvDs2EyXSLMb12Q+Q26+x6HYyPP69QdLKka8="; }; armToolchain = fetchurl { url = "https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/sdk-ng/releases/download/v${version}/toolchain_linux-x86_64_arm-zephyr-eabi.tar.gz"; hash = "sha256-B7YIZEyuqE+XNI7IWnN6WiC1k9UdFEt4YN4Yr7Vn3Po="; }; in stdenv.mkDerivation { name = "zephyr-sdk"; inherit version; srcs = [ sdk armToolchain ]; srcRoot = "."; nativeBuildInputs = [ which wget file python38 autoPatchelfHook cmake libusb ]; phases = [ "installPhase" "fixupPhase" ]; installPhase = '' runHook preInstall echo out=$out mkdir -p $out set $srcs tar -xf $1 -C $out --strip-components=1 tar -xf $2 -C $out (cd $out; bash ./setup.sh -h) rm $out/zephyr-sdk-x86_64-hosttools-standalone-0.9.sh runHook postInstall ''; }; zephyr-sdk = pkgs.callPackage new-zephyr-sdk-pkg { }; packages = with pkgs; [ # Tools for building the languages we are using llvmPackages_16.clang-unwrapped # Newer than base clang gnat zig zls rustup glibc_multi # Dependencies of the Zephyr build system. (python-packages) cmake ninja gperf python3 ccache dtc gmp.dev zephyr-sdk ]; in pkgs.mkShell { nativeBuildInputs = packages; # For Zephyr work, we need to initialize some environment variables, # and then invoke the zephyr setup script. shellHook = '' export ZEPHYR_SDK_INSTALL_DIR=${zephyr-sdk} export PATH=$PATH:${zephyr-sdk}/arm-zephyr-eabi/bin export VIA_WORKSPACE_PATH="$(realpath ./workspace/)" source ./workspace/zephyr/zephyr-env.sh ''; }

I just get the cross compile tools from ARM : https://developer.arm.com/downloads/-/arm-gnu-toolchain-downloads ... or zephyr : https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/sdk-ng/releases

There are free gcc based cross tools (compilers, debuggers, emulators) for a lot of MCUs (ARM, MIPS, riscv, etc).

Eg: Zephyr OS can use the https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/sdk-ng toolchain, which is built for arm, riscv, mips targets.

My favourite was Microsoft's cpprestsdk, but for some reason now is in maintenance mode, I don't know why, so it's hard to suggest it for new projects. A nice alternative is restc-cpp, that's has a good high-level interface, if this is what you want.

CppRestSDK is deprecated.

https://github.com/microsoft/cpprestsdk (concerned about being maintenance mode -> production?)

While it's not based on Boost Asio or Beast, Microsoft maintains a SDK for developing REST api's using C++, aptly named the C++ REST SDK. Here you can find the Github page. It pretty much covers everything you'd come to expect from a modern webserver package. It does come with a steep learning curve however.

I never thought I'd laud microsoft on open source software but this has certainly made my life easier... I mean come on, MIT licensed and everything...

https://github.com/microsoft/cpprestsdk

Assuming you want to make a REST API check this out: https://github.com/Microsoft/cpprestsdk

>But is it truly practical to use in 'higher-abstraction' apps like web or mobile?

Yes absolutely. Once you become familiar with the language the barrier is not that high. Familiarity trumps everything else.

That said, since i am not a Web/mobile developer i had collected some resources to help me learn how to use C++ for Web/Mobile apps, you may find it useful;

https://levelup.gitconnected.com/cross-platform-mobile-and-w...

https://github.com/Microsoft/cpprestsdk

https://medium.com/@ivan.mejia/modern-c-micro-service-implem...

I was starting a project that needs to read data with rest API and I'd like to use cpprestsdk from Microsoft. But it's readme says that's in maintenance mode and it's not recommended for new projects... I'd like to know why it's in maintenance mode, and if it will be abandoned. Also, if there's some equivalent library for cpp, instead of creating the business logic from scratch, i.e. with boost::beast.