Using LiteReplica on embedded platform

wildw

Our company makes embedded systems that use only a very basic real-time operating system. We already use sqlite in our products with a custom vfs for our filesystem and we use the lightweight ip stack (lwIP) for internet connectivity. I'm trying to find out whether LiteReplica is portable enough to work on our platform or if it's only intended to run on a host OS like linux/etc.

I downloaded the demo version but haven't got it to build yet as I see there are dependencies I need to grab (e.g. nanomsg) and figure out if they are workable on our platform - are the same dependencies used on the licenced version?

Bernardo

Hi,

Yes, nanomsg and binn are required in the last version too.

Indeed it may not be easy to port it to an embedded system. You will need to port nanomsg (for LiteReplica) or libuv (for LiteSync). I was able to make LiteSync run on an Onion Omega 2 (OpenWrt) because it has a libuv. Nanomsg can also be ported (https://github.com/openwrt/packages/pull/2087/files). But it appears that your system is more restricted.

Another option is to replace nanomsg by your own module that interfaces to the native IP stack, but keeping the same nanomsg function names. In this case your code is still compatible with newer versions of LiteReplica.