写一个服务器程序包括以下几个步骤：

  1. socket
  2. bind
  3. listen
  4. accept

在 libevent 中，将上面几个函数都封装在了一起，即 evconnlistener_new_bind 函数。因为做了这么多封装，所以该函数的参数也特别多。
该函数被声明在 listener.h 中。其函数原型如下。

/**
   Allocate a new evconnlistener object to listen for incoming TCP connections
   on a given address.

   @param base The event base to associate the listener with.
   @param cb A callback to be invoked when a new connection arrives. If the
      callback is NULL, the listener will be treated as disabled until the
      callback is set.
   @param ptr A user-supplied pointer to give to the callback.
   @param flags Any number of LEV_OPT_* flags
   @param backlog Passed to the listen() call to determine the length of the
      acceptable connection backlog.  Set to -1 for a reasonable default.
   @param sa The address to listen for connections on.
   @param socklen The length of the address.
 */
EVENT2_EXPORT_SYMBOL
struct evconnlistener *evconnlistener_new_bind(struct event_base *base,
    evconnlistener_cb cb, void *ptr, unsigned flags, int backlog,
    const struct sockaddr *sa, int socklen);

可以看到该函数的第一个参数需要一个事件集合，因此，在调用该函数之前应该先创建一个事件集合。通过 event_base_new 函数。即

struct event_base* base = event_base_new();

第二个参数需要一个回调函数，当有一个新的连接到来时会调用该回调函数，如果将该回调函数设置为 NULL, 那么就不会做任何处理。
回调函数的类型是evconnlistener_cb，声明如下：

/**@file event2/listener.h

   @brief A callback that we invoke when a listener has a new connection.

   @param listener The evconnlistener
   @param fd The new file descriptor
   @param addr The source address of the connection
   @param socklen The length of addr
   @param user_arg the pointer passed to evconnlistener_new()
 */
typedef void (*evconnlistener_cb)(struct evconnlistener *, evutil_socket_t, struct sockaddr *, int socklen, void *);

flags 参数的可供选项也在 listener.h 中进行了介绍，主要包括以下几个。

/** Flag: Indicates that we should not make incoming sockets nonblocking
 * before passing them to the callback. */
#define LEV_OPT_LEAVE_SOCKETS_BLOCKING	(1u<<0)
/** Flag: Indicates that freeing the listener should close the underlying
 * socket. */
#define LEV_OPT_CLOSE_ON_FREE		(1u<<1)
/** Flag: Indicates that we should set the close-on-exec flag, if possible */
#define LEV_OPT_CLOSE_ON_EXEC		(1u<<2)
/** Flag: Indicates that we should disable the timeout (if any) between when
 * this socket is closed and when we can listen again on the same port. */
#define LEV_OPT_REUSEABLE		(1u<<3)
/** Flag: Indicates that the listener should be locked so it's safe to use
 * from multiple threadcs at once. */
#define LEV_OPT_THREADSAFE		(1u<<4)
/** Flag: Indicates that the listener should be created in disabled
 * state. Use evconnlistener_enable() to enable it later. */
#define LEV_OPT_DISABLED		(1u<<5)
/** Flag: Indicates that the listener should defer accept() until data is
 * available, if possible.  Ignored on platforms that do not support this.
 *
 * This option can help performance for protocols where the client transmits
 * immediately after connecting.  Do not use this option if your protocol
 * _doesn't_ start out with the client transmitting data, since in that case
 * this option will sometimes cause the kernel to never tell you about the
 * connection.
 *
 * This option is only supported by evconnlistener_new_bind(): it can't
 * work with evconnlistener_new_fd(), since the listener needs to be told
 * to use the option before it is actually bound.
 */
#define LEV_OPT_DEFERRED_ACCEPT		(1u<<6)
/** Flag: Indicates that we ask to allow multiple servers (processes or
 * threads) to bind to the same port if they each set the option. 
 * 
 * SO_REUSEPORT is what most people would expect SO_REUSEADDR to be, however
 * SO_REUSEPORT does not imply SO_REUSEADDR.
 *
 * This is only available on Linux and kernel 3.9+
 */
#define LEV_OPT_REUSEABLE_PORT		(1u<<7)
/** Flag: Indicates that the listener wants to work only in IPv6 socket.
 *
 * According to RFC3493 and most Linux distributions, default value is to
 * work in IPv4-mapped mode. If there is a requirement to bind same port
 * on same ip addresses but different handlers for both IPv4 and IPv6,
 * it is required to set IPV6_V6ONLY socket option to be sure that the
 * code works as expected without affected by bindv6only sysctl setting in
 * system.
 *
 * This socket option also supported by Windows.
 */
#define LEV_OPT_BIND_IPV6ONLY		(1u<<8)

剩下的其他参数都是常规操作了。

创建一个服务器需要用到的一些基本函数参考下面的例子。

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <event.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <netinet/in.h>
#include <arpa/inet.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <event2/listener.h>


void read_cb(struct bufferevent* bev,void* ctx)
{
    // 读取数据
    char buf[128] = {0};
    size_t ret = bufferevent_read(bev,buf,sizeof(buf));
    if( ret < 0){
        printf("read error\n");
    }
    else{
        printf("read %s\n",buf);
    }
}

void event_cb(struct bufferevent* bev,short what,void* ctx)
{
    if(what & BEV_EVENT_EOF)
    {
        printf("客户端下线\n");
        //释放 bufferevent 对象
        bufferevent_free(bev);
    }
    else{
        printf("未知异常\n");
    }
}

void listener_cb(struct evconnlistener * listener, evutil_socket_t fd, struct sockaddr * addr, int socklen, void * arg)
{
    printf("接受 %d 的连接\n", fd);
    struct event_base *base = arg;

    // 针对已经存在的 socket 创建 bufferevent对象
    // 第一个参数 事件集合从回调函数的参数中传递进来
    // 第二个参数 接受连接的文件描述符
    // 选项 BEV_OPT_ 开头的选项
    struct bufferevent* bev = bufferevent_socket_new(base,fd,BEV_OPT_CLOSE_ON_FREE);
    if( NULL == bev)
    {
        printf("bufferevent_socket_new error\n");
        exit(1);
    }

    // 给 bufferevent 设置回调函数
    // 第一个参数 bufferevent 对象
    // 第二个参数 可读时的回调函数
    // 第三个参数 可写时的回调函数
    // 其他事件 比如异常 时的回调函数
    // 第四个参数 给回调函数传参
    bufferevent_setcb(bev,read_cb,NULL,event_cb,NULL);

    // 使能事件类型
    // 第一个参数 bufferevent 对象
    // 第二个参数 EV_READ 和 EV_WRITE 的组合
    bufferevent_enable(bev,EV_READ);
}

int main()
{
    // 创建一个事件集合
    struct event_base* base = event_base_new();
    if( NULL == base)
    {
        printf("event_base_new error\n");
        eixt(1);
    }

    struct sockaddr_in server_addr;
    memset(&server_addr,0,sizeof(server_addr));
    server_addr.sin_family = AF_INET;
    server_addr.sin_port = 8000;
    server_addr.sin_addr.s_addr = inet_addr("127.0.0.1");

    // 创建 监听对象，在指定的地址上监听接下来的TCP连接
    struct evconnlistener* listener = evconnlistener_new_bind(base, listener_cb,
        base, LEV_OPT_CLOSE_ON_FREE | LEV_OPT_REUSEABLE, 10 ,(struct sockaddr*)&server_addr,sizeof(server_addr) );

    if( NULL == listener )
    {
        printf("evconnlistener_new_bind error\n");
        exit(1);
    }
    
    
    // 监听集合中的事件
    event_base_dispatch(base);

    // 释放两个对象
    evconnlistener_free(listener);
    event_base_free(base);

    return 0;
}