bus1/dbus-broker

Linux D-Bus Message Broker

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dbus-broker - Linux D-Bus Message Broker

The dbus-broker project is an implementation of a message bus as defined by the D-Bus specification. Its aim is to provide high performance and reliability, while keeping compatibility to the D-Bus reference implementation. It is exclusively written for Linux systems, and makes use of many modern features provided by recent linux kernel releases.

WIKI: https://github.com/bus1/dbus-broker/wiki

BUG REPORTS: https://github.com/bus1/dbus-broker/issues

GIT:

  Cloning over ssh: git@github.com:bus1/dbus-broker.git
  Cloning over https: https://github.com/bus1/dbus-broker.git

GITWEB: https://github.com/bus1/dbus-broker

MAILINGLIST: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/bus1-devel

Requirements

The requirements for dbus-broker are:

  glibc >= 2.16
  linux kernel >= 4.17
  libaudit >= 3.0               (optional)
  libcap-ng >= 0.6              (optional)
  libselinux >= 3.2             (optional)

Additionally, the compatibility launcher requires:

  expat >= 2.2
  systemd >= 230

At build-time, the following software is required:

  linux-api-headers >= 6.5
  meson >= 1.3
  pkg-config >= 0.29
  rust >= 1.84
  rust-bindgen >= 0.60
  dbus >= 1.10                (optional: only for tests)
  python-docutils >= 0.13     (optional: only for docs)

Install

The meson build-system is used for dbus-broker. Contact upstream documentation for detailed help. In most situations the following commands are sufficient to build and install dbus-broker from source:

  $ meson setup build
  $ meson compile -C build
  $ meson test -C build
  $ meson install -C build

For custom configuration options see meson_options.txt.

License

General Public License 3.0 or later See AUTHORS for details.

SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later SPDX-FileCopyrightText: D-Bus Broker Developers

Contributors

teg

847 commits

dvdhrm

348 commits

bluca

16 commits

sre

13 commits

bus1/dbus-broker

Linux D-Bus Message Broker

813

stars

1,276

commits

C

primary language

Jul 2, 2026

updated

github.com/bus1/dbus-broker/wiki
c
d-bus
ipc
linux
message-broker
system

README

dbus-broker - Linux D-Bus Message Broker

The dbus-broker project is an implementation of a message bus as defined by the D-Bus specification. Its aim is to provide high performance and reliability, while keeping compatibility to the D-Bus reference implementation. It is exclusively written for Linux systems, and makes use of many modern features provided by recent linux kernel releases.

WIKI: https://github.com/bus1/dbus-broker/wiki

BUG REPORTS: https://github.com/bus1/dbus-broker/issues

GIT:

  Cloning over ssh: git@github.com:bus1/dbus-broker.git
  Cloning over https: https://github.com/bus1/dbus-broker.git

GITWEB: https://github.com/bus1/dbus-broker

MAILINGLIST: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/bus1-devel

Requirements

The requirements for dbus-broker are:

  glibc >= 2.16
  linux kernel >= 4.17
  libaudit >= 3.0               (optional)
  libcap-ng >= 0.6              (optional)
  libselinux >= 3.2             (optional)

Additionally, the compatibility launcher requires:

  expat >= 2.2
  systemd >= 230

At build-time, the following software is required:

  linux-api-headers >= 6.5
  meson >= 1.3
  pkg-config >= 0.29
  rust >= 1.84
  rust-bindgen >= 0.60
  dbus >= 1.10                (optional: only for tests)
  python-docutils >= 0.13     (optional: only for docs)

Install

The meson build-system is used for dbus-broker. Contact upstream documentation for detailed help. In most situations the following commands are sufficient to build and install dbus-broker from source:

  $ meson setup build
  $ meson compile -C build
  $ meson test -C build
  $ meson install -C build

For custom configuration options see meson_options.txt.

License

General Public License 3.0 or later See AUTHORS for details.

SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later SPDX-FileCopyrightText: D-Bus Broker Developers

Contributors

teg

847 commits

dvdhrm

348 commits

bluca

16 commits

sre

13 commits

Languages

C

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Rust

5.0%

Meson

1.5%