X-Git-Url: http://sigrok.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=fe3237cd25037e9758d97c86b00a5682d6b69675;hb=025c264448de771ceb130d4d01aacbb9ca8453ea;hp=35b32434c34149a672870f17015304f039317f25;hpb=cd5f52812dfbf1f0ec4f72af9a35af2ef02b985a;p=libserialport.git diff --git a/README b/README index 35b3243..fe3237c 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. @@ -24,33 +25,29 @@ Status The library should build and work on any Windows or Unix-based system. If it does not, please submit a bug. -Enumeration is currently only implemented on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. On -other systems enumeration will return no results, but ports can still be opened +Enumeration is currently implemented on Windows, Mac OS X, FreeBSD and Linux. +On other systems enumeration is not supported, but ports can still be opened by 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 ============ -On Linux, libudev is required. On other systems no other libraries are required. - -The libudev dependency could be eliminated in favour of direct sysfs queries at -the cost of some brevity. This is not currently a priority but if you feel like -doing this feel free to submit a patch. +No other libraries are required. 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 +MSYS2 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. @@ -59,3 +56,13 @@ API === Doxygen API documentation is included. + +It can also be viewed online at: + + http://sigrok.org/api/libserialport/unstable/ + +Website +======= + +http://sigrok.org/wiki/Libserialport +