libupnp: Build UPnP-compliant control points, devices, and bridges on several operating systems.
The Portable SDK for UPnP* Devices (libupnp)
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Copyright © 2000-2003 Intel Corporation - All Rights Reserved.
Copyright © 2005-2006 Rémi Turboult [email protected]
Copyright © 2006 Michel Pfeiffer and others [email protected]
See LICENSE for details.
Table of Contents
- 1. Overview
- 2. General Information
- 3. Changelog
- 4. Documentation
- 5. Other projects that are using the SDK
- 6. License Conditions
- 7. Release List
- 8. Package Contents
- 9. System Requirements
- 10. Build Instructions
- 11. Install/Uninstall Instructions
- 12. Product Release Notes
- 13. New Features
- 14. Support and Contact Information
- 15. IXML support for scripting languages
- 16. SourceForge Badges
- 17. Thanks
1. Overview
The Portable SDK for UPnP™ Devices is an SDK for development of UPnP device and control point applications. It consists of the core UPnP protocols along with a UPnP-specific eXtensible Markup Language (XML) parser supporting the Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 API and an optional, integrated mini web server for serving UPnP related documents. It provides developers with an API and open source code for building control points, devices, and bridges that are compliant with Version 1.0 of the Universal Plug and Play Device Architecture Specification and supports several operating systems like Linux, *BSD, Solaris and others.
2. General Information
UPnP™ is an architecture that enables discovery, event notification, and control of devices on a network, independent of operating system, programming language, or physical network connection. UPnP™ is based on common Internet standards and specifications such as TCP/IP, HTTP, and XML. For detailed information about UPnP™, including the UPnP™ Device Architecture Specification, please visit the UPnP™ Forum web site.
In 2000, Intel created the first version of the Linux SDK for UPnP™ Devices and subsequently released it to the open source community to foster growth of UPnP™. To learn more about Intel’s involvement with both UPnP™ and the SDK, please visit Intel’s Universal Plug and Play web site.
In 2006 this 100% compatible fork of the original project was created to
support further development. This way, the project now continues using the name “Portable UPnP™” and as a project that is more open to contributions of the community. The main goal is the availability of the project for all important platforms to become a standard for UPnP™.
3. Changelog
4. Documentation
Documentation is available in PDF format from the downloads section. The documentation actually resides inside the source code itself and is built into the PDF file by an automated process using Doxygen. Documentation for each function resides in a comment section immediately preceding the function.
5. Other projects that are using the SDK
This is a list of some of the projects and products that are based on the SDK for UPnP™ Devices. Please let us know if you are working on a project and would like to see it listed here!
- aMule has libupnp support to perform port forwarding.
- Gerbera UPnP™ media server.
- libmcupnp is a Free UPnP(v1) library for easy “MediaServer:1 Client” implementations. The library is built on top of libupnp.
- eMule Morph uses libupnp to forward ports automatically.
- PeerStream Audio Video Server.
- GeeXboX uShare™ A/V media server.
- MediaTomb UPnP™ media server.
- The Linux UPnP™ Internet Gateway Device This project is a daemon that emulates Microsoft’s Internet Connection Service (ICS). It implements the UPnP™ Internet Gateway Device (IGD) specification and allows UPnP™-aware clients, such as MSN Messenger, to work properly from behind a NAT firewall.
- FreeBSD ports of both the SDK for UPnP™ Devices"> and the Linux UPnP™ IGD" were contributed to the FreeBSD ports collection by Yen-Ming Lee.
- PseudoICSD is another daemon that provides UPnP™ Internet Gateway Device functionality on Linux systems.
- IGD2 for linux is an updated version of Linux-IGD implementation. This new version is created on top of UPnP IGD:2 specifications available from https://openconnectivity.org/developer/specifications/upnp-resources/upnp/internet-gateway-device-igd-v-2-0.
- gmrender-resurrect is a resource efficient UPnP/DLNA renderer, optimal for Raspberry Pi, CuBox or a general MediaServer. Fork of GMediaRenderer to add some features to make it usable.
- Music Player Daemon uses libupnp to browse and play music stored on an UPnP Media Server.
- VLC media player uses libupnp for services discovery.
The links listed here point to external pages that are not under our control, that means we do not have any influence on their contents. Some jurisdictions have the point of view that the owner of a internet page is responsible for links to other webpages and the contents that can be found there. (Landgericht Hamburg, Judgement from 12th May 1998, 312 O 85/98).
Because of that, the operator of these pages is dissociating explicitly from all links made from here. If we are informed about pages with penal relevant names, links, contents or something else we’ll remove links to these pages immediately in case that is technically possible and reasonable.
6. License Conditions
The Portable SDK for UPnP™ Devices is distributed under the BSD (Berkeley Standard Distribution) license. This license allows you to use the source code royalty free and does not place any restrictions on what you do with source code derived from the SDK. For full details on the license conditions, please consult the LICENSE file located inside the SDK distribution.
7. Release List
| Release Number | Date | History |
|---|---|---|
| 1.18.0 | TBA ? | Portable UPnP SDK |
| 1.16.0 | aborted | Portable UPnP SDK |
| 1.14.21 | TBA | Portable UPnP SDK |
| 1.14.20 | 2024-10-07 | Portable UPnP SDK |
| 1.14.19 | 2024-04-22 | Portable UPnP SDK |
| 1.14.18 | 2023-08-21 | Portable UPnP SDK |
| 1.14.17 | 2023-04-30 | Portable UPnP SDK |
| 1.14.16 | 2023-03-30 | Portable UPnP SDK |
| 1.14.15 | 2022-11-18 | Portable UPnP SDK |
| 1.14.14 | 2022-10-05 | Portable UPnP SDK |
| 1.14.13 | 2022-08-03 | Portable UPnP SDK |
| 1.14.12 | 2021-09-26 | Portable UPnP SDK |
| 1.14.11 | 2021-08-20 | Portable UPnP SDK |
| 1.14.10 | 2021-08-17 | Portable UPnP SDK |
| 1.14.9 | 2021-08-08 | Portable UPnP SDK |
| 1.14.8 | 2021-08-07 | Portable UPnP SDK |
| 1.14.7 | 2021-05-08 | Portable UPnP SDK |
| 1.14.6 | 2021-04-19 | Portable UPnP SDK |
| 1.14.5 | 2021-04-06 | Portable UPnP SDK |
| 1.14.4 | 2021-03-29 | Portable UPnP SDK |
| 1.14.3 | 2021-03-29 | Portable UPnP SDK |
| 1.14.2 | 2021-02-28 | Portable UPnP SDK |
| 1.14.1 | 2021-02-08 | Portable UPnP SDK |
| 1.14.0 | 2020-07-20 | Portable UPnP SDK |
| 1.12.1 | 2020-04-07 | Portable UPnP SDK |
| 1.12.0 | 2020-01-22 | Portable UPnP SDK |
| 1.10.1 | 2019-11-20 | Portable UPnP SDK |
| 1.10.0 | 2019-11-01 | Portable UPnP SDK |
| 1.8.7 | 2020-04-07 | Portable UPnP SDK |
| 1.8.6 | 2019-11-20 | Portable UPnP SDK |
| 1.8.5 | 2019-11-01 | Portable UPnP SDK |
| 1.8.4 | 2018-10-25 | Portable UPnP SDK |
| 1.8.3 | 2017-11-12 | Portable UPnP SDK |
| 1.8.2 | 2017-11-12 | Portable UPnP SDK |
| 1.8.1 | 2017-05-24 | Portable UPnP SDK |
| 1.8.0 | 2017-01-04 | Portable UPnP SDK |
| 1.6.25 | 2016-02-10 | Portable UPnP SDK |
| 1.6.24 | 2017-11-19 | Portable UPnP SDK |
| 1.6.23 | 2017-11-19 | Portable UPnP SDK |
| 1.6.22 | 2017-05-30 | Portable UPnP SDK |
| 1.6.21 | 2016-12-21 | Portable UPnP SDK |
| 1.6.20 | 2016-07-07 | Portable UPnP SDK |
| 1.6.19 | 2013-11-15 | Portable UPnP SDK |
| 1.6.18 | 2013-01-29 | Portable UPnP SDK |
| 1.6.17 | 2012-04-03 | Portable UPnP SDK |
| 1.6.16 | 2012-03-21 | Portable UPnP SDK |
| 1.6.15 | 2012-01-25 | Portable UPnP SDK |
| 1.6.14 | 2011-11-17 | Portable UPnP SDK |
| 1.6.13 | 2011-03-17 | Portable UPnP SDK |
| 1.6.12 | 2011-02-08 | Portable UPnP SDK |
| 1.6.11 | 2011-02-07 | Portable UPnP SDK |
| 1.6.10 | 2011-01-30 | Portable UPnP SDK |
| 1.6.9 | 2010-11-07 | Portable UPnP SDK |
| 1.6.8 | 2010-10-21 | Portable UPnP SDK |
| 1.6.7 | 2010-10-04 | Portable UPnP SDK |
| 1.6.6 | 2008-04-25 | Portable UPnP SDK |
| 1.6.5 | 2008-02-02 | Portable UPnP SDK |
| 1.6.4 | 2008-01-26 | Portable UPnP SDK |
| 1.6.3 | 2007-12-26 | Portable UPnP SDK |
| 1.6.2 | 2007-12-10 | Portable UPnP SDK |
| 1.6.1 | 2007-11-08 | Portable UPnP SDK |
| 1.6.0 | 2007-06-23 | Portable UPnP SDK |
| 1.4.6 | 2007-04-30 | Portable UPnP SDK |
| 1.4.5 | 2007-04-28 | Portable UPnP SDK |
| 1.4.4 | 2007-04-17 | Portable UPnP SDK |
| 1.4.3 | 2007-03-06 | Portable UPnP SDK |
| 1.4.2 | 2007-02-16 | Portable UPnP SDK |
| 1.4.1 | 2006-08-11 | Portable UPnP SDK |
| 1.4.0 | 2006-06-12 | Portable UPnP SDK |
| 1.3.1 | 2006-03-05 | UPnP SDK for Linux |
| 1.3.0 | 2006-03-04 | UPnP SDK for Linux |
| 1.2.1a | 2003-11-08 | UPnP SDK for Linux |
| 1.2.1 | 2003-02-13 | UPnP SDK for Linux |
| 1.0.4 | 2001-08-15 | UPnP SDK for Linux |
| 1.0.3 | 2001-06-12 | UPnP SDK for Linux |
| 1.0.2 | 2001-02-07 | UPnP SDK for Linux |
| 1.0.1 | 2000-10-13 | UPnP SDK for Linux |
| 1.0.0 | 2000-08-31 | UPnP SDK for Linux |
| 0.9.1 | 2000-08-17 | UPnP SDK for Linux |
| 0.9.0 | 2000-08-01 | UPnP SDK for Linux |
8. Package Contents
The SDK for UPnP Devices contains the following:
| Path/File | Description |
|---|---|
| README | This file. Contains the installation and build instructions. |
| LICENSE | The licensing terms the SDK is distributed under. |
| NEWS | Changes and new features. |
| ixml/doc | The files for generating the XML parser documentation from the source code. |
| ixml/inc | The public include files required to use the XML parser. |
| ixml/src | The source code to the XML parser library. |
| upnp/doc | The files for generating the SDK documentation from the source code. |
| upnp/inc | The public include files required to use the SDK. |
| upnp/src | The source files comprising the SDK, libupnp.so. |
| upnp/sample | A sample device and control point application, illustrating the usage of the SDK. |
9. System Requirements
The SDK for UPnP Devices is designed to compile and run under several operating systems. It does, however, have dependencies on some packages that may not be installed by default. All packages that it requires are listed below.
| Dependency | Description |
|---|---|
| libpthread | The header and library are installed as part of the glibc-devel package (or equivalent). |
Additionally, the documentation for the SDK can be auto-generated from the upnp.h header file using Doxygen, a documentation system for C, C++, IDL, and Java*. Doxygen generates the documentation in HTML or TeX format. Using some additional tools, the TeX output can be converted into a PDF file. To generate the documentation these tools are required:
| Package | Description |
|---|---|
| Doxygen | The homepage for Doxygen is https://www.doxygen.nl/index.html. The current version as of this release of the SDK is version 3.4.9. Doxygen is the only requirement for generating the HTML documentation. |
| LaTeX/TeX | To generate the PDF documentation, LaTeX and TeX tools are necessary. The tetex and tetex-latex packages provide these tools. |
| dvips | dvips converts the DVI file produced by LaTeX into a PostScript* file. The tetex-dvips package provides this tool. |
| ps2pdf | The final step to making the PDF is converting the PostStript* into Portable Document Format. The ghostscript package provides this tool. |
For the UPnP library to function correctly, networking must be configured properly for multicasting. To do this:
% route add -net 239.0.0.0 netmask 255.0.0.0 eth0
where ‘eth0’ is the network adapter that the UPnP library will use. Without this addition, device advertisements and control point searches will not function.
10. Build Instructions
10.1. Pre-requisites
Some packages/tools are required to build the library. Here’s a minimal ‘inspirational example’
that builds the library using a Docker Ubuntu image.
% docker run -it --rm ubuntu /bin/bash
% apt update \
&& apt install -y build-essential autoconf libtool pkg-config git shtool \
&& git clone http://github.com/pupnp/pupnp.git \
&& cd pupnp \
&& ./bootstrap
% ./configure
% make
10.2. Core Libraries
Note: On a git checkout, you need to run ./bootstrap to generate the configure script.
% ./configure
% make
will build a version of the binaries without debug support, and with default options enabled (see below for options available at configure time).
% ./configure CFLAGS="-DSPARC_SOLARIS -mtune=<cputype> -mcpu=<cputype>"
% make
will build a Sparc Solaris version of the binaries without debug support and with default options enabled (see below for options available at configure time). Please note: <cputype> has to be replaced by a token that fits to your platform and CPU (e.g. “supersparc”).
To build the documentation, assuming all the necessary tools are installed (see section 3):
To generate the HTML documentation:
% make html
To generate the PDF file:
% make pdf
A few options are available at configure time. Use “./configure --help” to display a complete list of options. Note that these options may be combined in any order. After installation, the file <upnp/upnpconfig.h> will provide a summary of the optional features that have been included in the library.
% ./configure --enable-debug
% make
will build a debug version with symbols support.
To build the library with the optional, integrated mini web server (note that this is the default):
% ./configure --enable-webserver
% make
To build without:
% ./configure --disable-webserver
% make
The SDK also contains some additional helper APIs, declared in inc/tools/upnptools.h. If these additional tools are not required, they can be compiled out:
% ./configure --disable-tools
% make
By default, the tools are included in the library.
To further remove code that is not required, the library can be build with or with out the control point (client) or device specific code. To remove this code:
% ./configure --disable-client
% make
to remove client only code or:
% ./configure --disable-device
% make
to remove device only code.
By default, both client and device code is included in the library. The integrated web server is automatically removed when configuring with --disable-device.
To build the library without large-file support (enabled by default):
% ./configure --disable-largefile
% make
To remove all the targets, object files, and built documentation:
% make clean
10.3. Cross Compilation
To cross compile the SDK, a special “configure” directive is all that is required:
% ./configure --host=arm-linux
% make
This will invoke the “arm-linux-gcc” cross compiler to build the library.
10.4. Samples
The SDK contains two samples: a TV device application and a control point that talks with the TV device. They are found in the $(LIBUPNP)/upnp/sample directory.
To build the samples (note: this is the default behavior):
% ./configure --enable-samples
% make
will build the sample device “$(LIBUPNP)/upnp/tv_device” and sample control point “$(LIBUPNP)/upnp/tv_ctrlpt”. Note : the sample device won’t be built if --disable-device has been configured, and the sample control point won’t be build if --disable-client has been configured.
To run the sample device, you need to create a tvdevice directory and move the web directory there, giving: “$(LIBUPNP)/upnp/sample/tvdevice/web”. To run the sample invoke from the command line as follows:
% cd ./upnp/sample/tvdevice
% ../tv_device
10.5. Solaris Build
The building process for the Solaris operating system is similar to the one described above. Only the call to ./configure has to be done using an additional parameter:
% ./configure CFLAGS="-mcpu=<cputype> -mtune=<cputype> -DSPARC_SOLARIS"
where <cputype> has to be replaced by the appropriate CPU tuning flag (e.g. “supersparc”). Afterwards
% make
% make install
can be called as described above.
10.6. Windows Build
See the section CMake Build
10.7. CMake Build
In Order to build everything using the cmake build system, you just need to install cmake for your platform.
Standalone cmake is recommended, IDE’s like Visual Studio have built-in support which works, but as cmake in general
encourages out-of-source builds and VS writes it’s config into the source, cmake-gui should be used on windows.
All known options have the same meaning as stated in point 10.2. In Addition 2 options have been added.
-
DOWNLOAD_AND_BUILD_DEPS: This option is only available if a useable git program was found on your system.
With this option on, the pthread4w package will be downloaded while configuring the build-env, then it will be build and installed along with upnp. -
BUILD_TESTING: This option activates the tests.
If you don’t want to build pthreads4w in the same build as upnp, you can download it from https://github.com/Vollstrecker/pthreads4w.
Just build and install it. The libs and headers will be found, if you set CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX (the base install dir) to the same location.
For information on general usage of the cmake build system see: https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.19/guide/user-interaction/index.html
11. Install/Uninstall Instructions
11.1. Install
The top-level makefile for the UPnP SDK contains rules to install the necessary components. To install the SDK, as root:
% make install
11.2. Uninstall
Likewise, the top-level makefile contains an uninstall rule, reversing the steps in the install:
% make uninstall
12. Product Release Notes
The SDK for UPnP Devices v1.2.1a has these known issues:
- The UPnP library may not work with older versions of gcc and libstdc++, causing a segmentation fault when the library loads. It is recommended that gcc version 2.9 or later be used in building library.
- The UPnP library does not work the glibc 2.1.92-14 that ships with Red Hat 7.0. For the library to function, you must updated the glibc and glibc-devel packages to 2.1.94-3 or later. There is some issue with libpthreads that has been resolved in the 2.1.94 version.
13. New Features
See ChangeLog file.
14. Support and Contact Information
Intel is not providing support for the SDK for UPnP Devices. Mailing lists and discussion boards can be found at https://github.com/pupnp/pupnp/discussions.
If you find this SDK useful, please send an email to [email protected] and let us know.
* Other brands, names, and trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
15. IXML support for scripting languages
The tree structure of XML documents created by IXML is hard to maintain when creating a binding for a scripting language. Even when many elements may never be used on the script side, it requires copying the entire tree structure once you start accessing elements several levels deep.Hence scriptsupport was added. To enable it compile while IXML_HAVE_SCRIPTSUPPORT has been defined (enabled by default). This allows control using only a list instead of a tree-like structure, and only nodes actually accessed need to be created instead of all the nodes in the tree.
Here’s how its supposed to work:
- The scriptsupport allows you to add a callback when a node is freed on the C side, so appropriate action can be taken on the script side, see function ixmlSetBeforeFree().
- Instead of recreating the tree structure, an intermediate object should be created only for the nodes actually accessed. The object should be containing a pointer to the node and a ‘valid flag’ which is initially set to TRUE (the valid flag, can simply be the pointer to the node being NULL or not). Before creating the intermediate object, the custom tag ‘ctag’ can be used to check whether one was already created.
- the node object gets an extra ‘void* ctag’ field, a custom tag to make a cross reference to the script side intermediate object. It can be set using ixmlNode_setCTag(), and read using ixmlNode_getCTag(). Whenever a new intermediate object is created, the ctag of the corresponding node should be set to point to this intermediate object.
- The tree structure traversal is done on the C side (looking up parents, children and siblings)
- Every intermediate object created should be kept in a list (preferably a key-value list, where the key is the pointer to the node and the value is the pointer to the intermediate object)
- when the callback is called, the node should be looked up in the list, the flag set to false, the pointer to the C-side node be cleared and on the C-side the ctag should be cleared.
- whenever the intermediate object is accessed and its flag is set to False, an error should be thrown that the XML document has been closed.
Freeing resources can be done in 2 ways, C side by simply calling the free node methods, or script side by the garbage collector of the script engine.
Script side steps:
- if the valid flag is set to False (XML document is closed), then the intermediate object can be destroyed, no further action.
- if the node has a parent, then the intermediate object can be destroyed after the ctag on the corresponding node has been cleared. Nothing needs to be freed on the C-side.
- if the node has no parent, then the node must be freed on the C side by calling the corresponding free node methods. This will result in a chain of callbacks closing the node and all underlying nodes.
16. SourceForge Badges
17. Thanks
- To all the people listed in the THANKS file.
- To JetBrains for kindly providing us with open source licenses of their amazing products.
