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+# -*- Mode: python; py-indent-offset: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; coding: utf-8; -*-
+VERSION='0.1'
+
+from waflib import Build, Logs, Utils, Task, TaskGen, Configure
+
+def options(opt):
+    opt.load('compiler_cxx')
+    opt.load('boost', tooldir=['.waf-tools'])
+
+    nfdopt = opt.add_option_group('NFD Options')
+    nfdopt.add_option('--debug',action='store_true',default=False,dest='debug',help='''Compile library debugging mode without all optimizations (-O0)''')
+    nfdopt.add_option('--with-tests', action='store_true',default=False,dest='with_tests',help='''Build unit tests''')
+    nfdopt.add_option('--with-ndn-cpp',action='store',type='string',default=None,dest='ndn_cpp_dir',
+                      help='''Use NDN-CPP library from the specified path''')
+    
+def configure(conf):
+    conf.load("compiler_cxx boost")
+
+    if conf.options.debug:
+        conf.define ('_DEBUG', 1)
+        conf.add_supported_cxxflags (cxxflags = ['-O0',
+                                                 '-Wall',
+                                                 '-Wno-unused-variable',
+                                                 '-g3',
+                                                 '-Wno-unused-private-field', # only clang supports
+                                                 '-fcolor-diagnostics',       # only clang supports
+                                                 '-Qunused-arguments',        # only clang supports
+                                                 '-Wno-tautological-compare', # suppress warnings from CryptoPP
+                                                 '-Wno-unused-function',      # suppress warnings from CryptoPP
+                                                 ])
+    else:
+        conf.add_supported_cxxflags (cxxflags = ['-O3', '-g', '-Wno-tautological-compare', '-Wno-unused-function'])
+
+    if not conf.options.ndn_cpp_dir:
+        conf.check_cfg(package='libndn-cpp-dev', args=['--cflags', '--libs'], uselib_store='NDN_CPP', mandatory=True)
+    else:
+        conf.check_cxx(lib='ndn-cpp-dev', uselib_store='NDN_CPP', 
+                       cxxflags="-I%s/include" % conf.options.ndn_cpp_dir,
+                       linkflags="-L%s/lib" % conf.options.ndn_cpp_dir,
+                       mandatory=True)
+        
+    boost_libs='system'
+    if conf.options.with_tests:
+        conf.env['WITH_TESTS'] = 1
+        boost_libs+=' unit_test_framework'
+
+    conf.check_boost(lib=boost_libs)
+        
+    boost_version = conf.env.BOOST_VERSION.split('_')
+    if int(boost_version[0]) < 1 or int(boost_version[1]) < 42:
+        Logs.error ("Minumum required boost version is 1.42")
+        return
+
+def build (bld):
+    bld(target = "nfd",
+        features = "cxx cxxprogram",
+        source = bld.path.ant_glob(['daemon/**/*.cpp']),
+        use = 'BOOST NDN_CPP',
+        )        
+    
+    # Unit tests
+    if bld.env['WITH_TESTS']:
+      unittests = bld.program (
+          target="unit-tests",
+          features = "cxx cxxprogram",
+          source = bld.path.ant_glob(['tests/*.cpp']),
+          use = 'BOOST NDN_CPP',
+          includes = ".",
+          install_prefix = None,
+          )
+
+@Configure.conf
+def add_supported_cxxflags(self, cxxflags):
+    """
+    Check which cxxflags are supported by compiler and add them to env.CXXFLAGS variable
+    """
+    self.start_msg('Checking allowed flags for c++ compiler')
+
+    supportedFlags = []
+    for flag in cxxflags:
+        if self.check_cxx (cxxflags=[flag], mandatory=False):
+            supportedFlags += [flag]
+
+    self.end_msg (' '.join (supportedFlags))
+    self.env.CXXFLAGS += supportedFlags