The SockTalk library is a C++ library for network communication over sockets. Swift, not being a C-family language, cannot be linked to C++ libraries as easily as Objective-C can. This project's aim is to create a Cocoa framework written in Swift that conforms to the SockTalk protocol and thus allow the creation of Swift programs capable of communicating with C/C++ programs following SockTalk protocol. The framework also takes a slightly different approach, as C++ has multiple inheritance and Swift does not.

The project also includes a second target which is a frontend to the library.

Compiling SockTalk requires that the OpenSSL be installed and that the static libraries (.a) are located in the OpenSSL directory in the project root. The OpenSSL libraries and header files are not included in this repository.

See the repository of the C++ library for a more detailed description of the SockTalk protocol.

Note that the C++ version of the library is the reference implementation. New features are generally added to that version before the Swift one. Releases that have the exact same version number are guaranteed to provide the same features. If feature availability diverges, this will be indicated in the version number.

The frontends aim to make all of the library functions available in some way, but provide no guarantee of synchronized feature availability. The Cocoa frontend, having a GUI, is likely to always be more advanced than the C++ command line frontend.

Project available under GPLv3 with the exception that linking proprietary Apple libraries as well as the OpenSSL library is allowed. See LICENSE for full GPL text. See opensslLicense.txt for the full OpenSSL license.

This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the OpenSSL Toolkit (http://www.openssl.org/)