X-Git-Url: http://sigrok.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=4e2ba26e9f6f2fda88bd0e63d334930902e2732c;hb=a46ee5b4d79311fe304c59ce115ebf3b725a295c;hp=f681f5711cb4faae8fe64da102df7d53a917e157;hpb=98cac5d63e047a633ac1078950840688c1d5234f;p=libserialport.git diff --git a/README b/README index f681f57..4e2ba26 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -11,6 +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 device information, Bluetooth address, etc). - Opening and closing ports. - Setting port parameters (baud rate, parity, etc). - Reading, writing and flushing data. @@ -31,12 +32,6 @@ name and then used. If you know how to enumerate available ports on another OS, please submit a bug with this information, or better still a patch implementing it. -Future -====== - -Future versions will add additional API calls for obtaining metadata about a -port, e.g. for USB devices the USB VID and PID of the underlying device. - Dependencies ============ @@ -46,7 +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.