The Open Lighting Architecture (OLA) provides a plugin framework for distributing DMX512 control signals on Mac and Linux. It provides C++ and Python libraries which abstract away the underlying DMX over IP protocol or DMX interface. See http://opendmx.net/index.php/OLA for more information. The build script can optionally disable python bindings and/or enable the embedded http server. WITH_PYTHON=no will disable the python bindings, and WITH_HTTP=yes will enable the embedded http server (in which case libmicrohttp also be required).