Document the download for pre-built firmware files.

[sigrok-firmware-fx2lafw.git] / README

diff --git a/README b/README
index bd7fbfcf4fadf23aed551f9779fe7d410f1dc589..7a5e7feeb4eaaddc8bd7fdcc3069524308c94c81 100644 (file)
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -24,11 +24,21 @@ tarball releases.
 Requirements
 ------------
 
- - In order to build fx2lafw you need the 'sdcc' compiler.
+ - git
+ - make
+ - autoconf >= 2.63
+ - automake >= 1.11
+ - sdcc (>= 2.9.0)
+
+Notes:
+
+ - In order to build fx2lafw you need the 'sdcc' compiler (>= 2.9.0).
    On Debian you can install it via:
 
      $ apt-get install sdcc
 
+   This project has been tested to work with sdcc 2.9, 3.0, 3.1, and 3.2.
+
  - You need libsigrok >= 0.1.1 in order to make use of fx2lafw. Earlier
    versions didn't have support for FX2 devices using this firmware.
 
@@ -40,6 +50,8 @@ In order to get the sigrok-firmware-fx2lafw source code and build it, run:
 
  $ git clone git://sigrok.org/sigrok-firmware-fx2lafw
  $ cd sigrok-firmware-fx2lafw
+ $ ./autogen.sh
+ $ ./configure
  $ make
 
 For installing sigrok-firmware-fx2lafw:
@@ -50,14 +62,20 @@ The generated *.fw files are installed into /usr/local/share/sigrok-firmware.
 
 You can override the install location like this:
 
- $ make install DESTDIR=/usr/share/sigrok-firmware
+ $ ./configure --prefix=/usr
+
+See INSTALL or the following wiki page for more (OS-specific) instructions:
+
+ http://sigrok.org/wiki/Building
+
+
+Pre-built firmware files
+------------------------
 
-Please see the following wiki pages for more detailed instructions:
+There are also pre-built firmware files that can be used without having
+to build them from source. You can download those from SourceForge:
 
- http://sigrok.org/wiki/Linux
- http://sigrok.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X
- http://sigrok.org/wiki/Windows
- http://sigrok.org/wiki/FreeBSD
+  http://sourceforge.net/projects/sigrok/files/binary/sigrok-firmware-fx2lafw/
 
 
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