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The ZeroMQ lightweight messaging kernel is a library which extends thestandard socket interfaces with features traditionally provided byspecialised messaging middleware products. ZeroMQ sockets provide anabstraction of asynchronous message queues, multiple messaging patterns,message filtering (subscriptions), seamless access to multiple transportprotocols and more.

For Linux users, pre-built binary packages are available for most distributions.Note that DRAFT APIs can change at any time without warning, pick a STABLE build toavoid having them enabled.

echo "deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/network:/messaging:/zeromq:/release-stable/Debian_9.0/ ./" >> /etc/apt/sources.listwget https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/network:/messaging:/zeromq:/release-stable/Debian_9.0/Release.key -O- | sudo apt-key addapt-get install libzmq3-dev

For OSX users, packages are available via brew.

brew install zeromq

To build from sources, see the INSTALL file included with the distribution.

Extensive documentation is provided with the distribution. Refer todoc/zmq.html, or "man zmq" after you have installed libzmq on your system.

Website:http://www.zeromq.org/

Development mailing list:zeromq-dev@lists.zeromq.orgAnnouncements mailing list:zeromq-announce@lists.zeromq.org

Git repository:http://github.com/zeromq/libzmq

ZeroMQ developers can also be found on the IRC channel #zeromq, on theFreenode network (irc.freenode.net).

The project license is specified in COPYING and COPYING.LESSER.

libzmq is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it underthe terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) as publishedby the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or(at your option) any later version.

As a special exception, the Contributors give you permission to linkthis library with independent modules to produce an executable,regardless of the license terms of these independent modules, and tocopy and distribute the resulting executable under terms of your choice,provided that you also meet, for each linked independent module, theterms and conditions of the license of that module. An independentmodule is a module which is not derived from or based on this library.If you modify this library, you must extend this exception to yourversion of the library.

libzmq is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUTANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY orFITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General PublicLicense for more details.