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5The sigrok project aims at creating a portable, cross-platform,
6Free/Libre/Open-Source signal analysis software suite that supports various
7device types (such as logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, multimeters, and more).
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9libsigrok is a shared library written in C which provides the basic API
10for talking to hardware and reading/writing the acquired data into various
11input/output file formats.
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14Status
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17libsigrok is in a usable state and has had official tarball releases.
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19While the API can change from release to release, this will always be
20properly documented and reflected in the package version number and
21in the shared library / libtool / .so-file version numbers.
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23However, there are _NO_ guarantees at all for stable APIs in git snapshots!
24Distro packagers should only use released tarballs (no git snapshots).
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27Requirements
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29
30 - git
31 - gcc (>= 4.0)
32 - make
33 - autoconf >= 2.63
34 - automake >= 1.11
35 - libtool
36 - pkg-config >= 0.22
37 - libglib >= 2.32.0
38 - libzip >= 0.8
39 - libusb-1.0 >= 1.0.9 (optional, used by most drivers)
40 - libftdi >= 0.16 (optional, used by some drivers)
41 - libasound / alsa-lib >= 1.0 (optional, only used by the alsa driver)
42 - check >= 0.9.4 (optional, only needed to run unit tests)
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44
45Building and installing
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47
48In order to get the libsigrok source code and build it, run:
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50 $ git clone git://sigrok.org/libsigrok
51 $ cd libsigrok
52 $ ./autogen.sh
53 $ ./configure
54 $ make
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56For installing libsigrok:
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58 $ make install
59
60See INSTALL or the following wiki page for more (OS-specific) instructions:
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62 http://sigrok.org/wiki/Building
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64
65Device-specific issues
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67
68Please check README.devices for some notes and hints about device- or
69driver-specific issues to be aware of.
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71
72Firmware
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75Some devices supported by libsigrok need a firmware to be uploaded before the
76device can be used. See README.devices for details.
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79Mailing lists
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81
82There are two mailing lists for sigrok/libsigrok:
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84 https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sigrok-devel
85 https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sigrok-commits
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87
88IRC
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90
91You can find the sigrok developers in the #sigrok IRC channel on Freenode.
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94Website
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97 http://sigrok.org/wiki/Libsigrok
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