Best C/C++ Network Library

Question

I haven't done work in C/C++ for a little bit and was just wondering what people's favorite cross platform libraries are to use.

I'm looking for something that is a good quick and dirty library as well as a library that is a little more robust. Often those are two different libraries and that's okay.

Answer 1

Aggregated List of Libraries

• Boost.Asio is really good.
• Asio is also available as a stand-alone library.
• ACE is also good, a bit more mature and has a couple of books to support it.
• C++ Network Library
• POCO
• Qt
• Raknet
• ZeroMQ (C++)
• nanomsg (C Library)
• nng (C Library)
• Berkeley Sockets
• libevent
• Apache APR
• yield
• Winsock2(Windows only)
• wvstreams
• zeroc
• libcurl
• libuv (Cross-platform C library)
• SFML's Network Module
• C++ Rest SDK (Casablanca)
• RCF
• Restbed (HTTP Asynchronous Framework)
• SedNL
• SDL_net
• OpenSplice|DDS
• facil.io (C, with optional HTTP and Websockets, Linux / BSD / macOS)
• GLib Networking
• grpc from Google
• GameNetworkingSockets from Valve
• CYSockets To do easy things in the easiest way
• yojimbo
• GGPO
• ENet
• SLikeNet is a fork of Raknet
• netcode
• photon is closed source, requires license to use their sdk
• crossplatform network - open source non blocking metatemplate framework built on top of boost asio