UUID generator for Erlang

Copyright 2010 Zoltan Klinger

1. General Information:

   The UUID generator is implemented as a gen_server making calls to a linked in driver.

2. Dependencies:

   The linked in drivier is using the libuuid library.

2.1 Obtaining the libuuid library

Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install uuid-dev

Cygwin: install the e2fsprogs package

3. Building the UUID generator

   Go to the root level of the uuid project and build the linked in driver and compile the Erlang files: $ make

4. Using the UUID generator

   $ erl -pz ./ebin 1> uuid:start_link("priv/lib", "uuid_gen_drv"). {ok,<0.34.0>} 2> uuid:create().
   {ok,"ae42a570-08dd-4e10-8ec5-2f1485efe8bd"} 3> uuid:create_t(). {ok,"b80668e2-51f5-11df-aab5-000e3526dd6e"} 4> uuid:stop(). stopped