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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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16
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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26
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 >= 2.28.0
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 - libudev >= 151 (optional, used by some drivers)
42 - libasound / alsa-lib >= 1.0 (optional, only used by the alsa driver)
43 - check >= 0.9.4 (optional, only needed to run unit tests)
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45
46Building and installing
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48
49In order to get the libsigrok source code and build it, run:
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51 $ git clone git://sigrok.org/libsigrok
52 $ cd libsigrok
53 $ ./autogen.sh
54 $ ./configure
55 $ make
56
57For installing libsigrok:
58
59 $ make install
60
61Please see the following wiki pages for more detailed instructions:
62
63 http://sigrok.org/wiki/Linux
64 http://sigrok.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X
65 http://sigrok.org/wiki/Windows
66 http://sigrok.org/wiki/FreeBSD
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68
69Device-specific issues
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71
72Please check README.devices for some notes and hints about device- or
73driver-specific issues to be aware of.
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75
76Firmware
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78
79Some devices supported by libsigrok need a firmware to be uploaded before the
80device can be used. See README.devices for details.
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82
83Mailing lists
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85
86There are two mailing lists for sigrok/libsigrok:
87
88 https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sigrok-devel
89 https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sigrok-commits
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91
92IRC
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94
95You can find the sigrok developers in the #sigrok IRC channel on Freenode.
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98Website
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101 http://sigrok.org/wiki/Libsigrok
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