Greenbone Library for ical functions

This library contains functionality for ical object manipulation.

Build and Installation

Prerequisites

• GCC
• cmake >= 3.0
• pkg-config
• libical >= 1.0.0
• glib >= 2.42
• PostgreSQL dev >= 9.6
• libgvm-base >= 20.8

Install these packages using (on Debian GNU/Linux bookworm 12):

apt-get install gcc cmake pkg-config libical-dev libglib2.0-dev postgresql-server-dev-15

and build the gvm-libs as described in the README.

Configure and Build

This extension can be configured, built and installed with the following commands:

cmake .
make && make install

Use the extension

To use the extension in a database create the extension using

CREATE EXTENSION "pg-gvm";

Test the extension

The tests are based on pgTAP, a unit test tool for PostgreSQL Databases.

Setup for tests

Install pgTAP cloning the repository

and follow the instructions in the setup documentation

Integration

To use pgTAP in a database use

CREATE EXTENSION IF NOT EXISTS pgtap;

as postgres user. To check if the extension exists use

\dx

Running the tests

The tests are located in the tests folder of this repository.

As postgres user run (replace MY_DATABASE with the real name of the database)

pg_prove -d MY_DATABASE tests/*.sql