X-Git-Url: http://sigrok.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=4e2ba26e9f6f2fda88bd0e63d334930902e2732c;hb=a46ee5b4d79311fe304c59ce115ebf3b725a295c;hp=36c289d4d3e3c72f83e5de84727008d2fefbcb72;hpb=a93fb468885de8775f1d200625dac114d3050b1d;p=libserialport.git diff --git a/README b/README index 36c289d..4e2ba26 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ transparently on any platform supported by the library. The operations that are supported are: - Port enumeration (obtaining a list of serial ports on the system). -- Obtaining port metadata (USB VID:PID, manufacturer and product name, etc). +- Obtaining port metadata (USB device information, Bluetooth address, etc). - Opening and closing ports. - Setting port parameters (baud rate, parity, etc). - Reading, writing and flushing data. @@ -41,7 +41,13 @@ Building ======== The package uses a GNU style build system and requires a Unix style shell. -On Windows it can be built with the MinGW toolchain and MSYS environment. + +Windows builds can be created natively with the MinGW-w64 toolchain and +MSYS environment, or cross-compiled using a MinGW-w64 toolchain: + + http://mingw-w64.sourceforge.net/ + +The "old" MinGW from http://mingw.org/ is not supported. Run "./autogen.sh" to generate the build system, "./configure" to setup, then "make" to build the library and "make install" to install it.