This repository contains the library libvrb-0.5.1 by Philip D. Howard, which is needed to build and use secoli-SCEd.

The VRB library implements a ring buffer, also known as a character FIFO or circular buffer, with a special property that any data present in the buffer, as well as any empty space, are always seen as a single contiguous extent by the calling program. This is implemented with virtual memory mapping by creating a mirror image of the buffer contents at the memory location in the virtual address space immediately after the main buffer location. This allows the mirror image to always be seen without doing any copying of data.

VRB is written in C and is intended for C programmers. It can be used in C++ but C++ programmers will find that their usual ways of coding for objects does not apply. And this is because it is intended just for C.

The installation instructions are in file "INSTALL". But if you are in a hurry, you can just do:

./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make clean
make install

You will probably have to configure your operating system to properly use the new library.