qt_eventdispatcher_libev

libev-based event dispatcher for Qt

Features

• very fast :-)
• compatible with Qt 4 and Qt 5
• does not use any private Qt headers
• passes Qt 4 and Qt 5 event dispatcher, event loop, timer and socket notifier tests

Unsupported Features

• QSocketNotifier::Exception (libev offers no support for this)
• Qt 5/Windows only: QWinEventNotifier is not supported (registerEventNotifier() and unregisterEventNotifier() functions are currently implemented as stubs)

Requirements

• libev >= 4.0
• Qt >= 4.2.1 (tests from tests-qt4 were run only on Qt 4.8.x, 4.5.4, 4.3.0, 4.2.1)

Build

cd src
qmake
make

Replace make with nmake if your are using Microsoft Visual C++.

The above commands will generate the static library and .prl file in ../lib directory.

Install

After completing Build step run

*NIX:

sudo make install

Windows:

nmake install

For Windows this will copy eventdispatcher_libev.h to ../lib directory. For *NIX this will install eventdispatcher_libev.h to /usr/include, libeventdispatcher_libev.a and libeventdispatcher_libev.prl to /usr/lib, eventdispatcher_libev.pc to /usr/lib/pkgconfig.

Usage (Qt 4)

Simply include the header file and instantiate the dispatcher in main() before creating the Qt application object.

#include "eventdispatcher_libev.h"

int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
    EventDispatcherLibEv dispatcher;
    QCoreApplication app(argc, argv);

    // ...

    return app.exec();
}

And add these lines to the .pro file:

unix {
    CONFIG    += link_pkgconfig
    PKGCONFIG += eventdispatcher_libev
}
else:win32 {
    include(/path/to/qt_eventdispatcher_libev/lib/eventdispatcher_libev.pri)
}

or

HEADERS += /path/to/eventdispatcher_libev.h
LIBS    += -L/path/to/library -leventdispatcher_libev

Usage (Qt 5)

Simply include the header file and instantiate the dispatcher in main() before creating the Qt application object.

#include "eventdispatcher_libev.h"

int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
    QCoreApplication::setEventDispatcher(new EventDispatcherLibEv);
    QCoreApplication app(argc, argv);

    // ...

    return app.exec();
}

And add these lines to the .pro file:

unix {
    CONFIG    += link_pkgconfig
    PKGCONFIG += eventdispatcher_libev
}
else:win32 {
    include(/path/to/qt_eventdispatcher_libev/lib/eventdispatcher_libev.pri)
}

or

HEADERS += /path/to/eventdispatcher_libev.h
LIBS    += -L/path/to/library -leventdispatcher_libev

Qt 5 allows to specify a custom event dispatcher for the thread:

QThread* thr = new QThread;
thr->setEventDispatcher(new EventDispatcherLibEv);