If your program only uses client in brpc or doesn't use brpc at all, but you also want to use built-in services in brpc. The thing you should do is to start an empty server, which is called **dummy server**.# client in brpc is usedCreate a file named dummy_server.port which contains a port number(such as 8888) in the running directory of program, a dummy server would be started at this port. All of the bvar in the same process can be seen by visiting its built-in service.# brpc is not used at all
You must manually add the dummy server. First read [Getting Started](getting_started.md) to learn how to download and compile brpc, and then add the following code snippet at the program entry: