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5 The sigrok project aims at creating a portable, cross-platform,
6 Free/Libre/Open-Source signal analysis software suite that supports various
9 libsigrok is a shared library written in C which provides the basic API
10 for talking to hardware and reading/writing the acquired data into various
11 input/output file formats.
25 - libusb >= 1.0.5 (for most hardware)
27 - libftdi >= 0.16 (for some hardware)
28 - libudev >= 151 (for some hardware)
31 Building and installing
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34 In order to get the libsigrok source code and build it, run:
36 $ git clone git://sigrok.org/libsigrok
42 For installing libsigrok:
46 Please see the following wiki pages for more detailed instructions:
48 http://sigrok.org/wiki/Linux
49 http://sigrok.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X
50 http://sigrok.org/wiki/Windows
51 http://sigrok.org/wiki/FreeBSD
57 Some devices supported by libsigrok need a firmware to be uploaded before the
60 The default location where libsigrok expects the firmware files is:
62 $prefix/share/sigrok-firmware
64 ($prefix is usually /usr/local or /usr, depending on your ./configure options)
66 For further information see:
68 http://sigrok.org/wiki/Firmware
74 There are two mailing lists for sigrok/libsigrok:
76 https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sigrok-devel
77 https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sigrok-commits
83 You can find the sigrok developers in the #sigrok IRC channel on Freenode.