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The sigrok project aims at creating a portable, cross-platform,
-Free/Libre/Open-Source logic analyzer software that supports various
-logic analyzer hardware products.
+Free/Libre/Open-Source signal analysis software suite that supports various
+device types (such as logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, multimeters, and more).
libsigrokdecode is a shared library written in C which provides the basic
API for running sigrok protocol decoders. The protocol decoders themselves
are written in Python.
-Status and API
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+Status
+------
-The libsigrokdecode project is currently work in progress.
+libsigrokdecode is in a usable state and has had official tarball releases.
-IMPORTANT: The API of libsigrokdecode is NOT yet considered stable! Please do
- not rely on it, yet! Changes to function names, macro names etc.
- can happen at any time without prior notice!
+While the API can change from release to release, this will always be
+properly documented and reflected in the package version number and
+in the shared library / libtool / .so-file version numbers.
- The same applies for the API of the Python protocol decoders!
+However, there are _NO_ guarantees at all for stable APIs in git snapshots!
+Distro packagers should only use released tarballs (no git snapshots).
Requirements
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- - git
- - gcc
+ - git (only needed when building from git)
+ - gcc (>= 4.0) or clang
- make
- - autoconf >= 2.63
- - automake >= 1.11
- - libtool
+ - autoconf >= 2.63 (only needed when building from git)
+ - automake >= 1.11 (only needed when building from git)
+ - libtool (only needed when building from git)
- pkg-config >= 0.22
- - libglib >= 2.22.0
- - Python >= 3.x (for protocol decoders)
+ - libglib >= 2.34
+ - Python >= 3.2
+ - check >= 0.9.4 (optional, only needed to run unit tests)
+ - doxygen (optional, only needed for the C API docs)
+ - graphviz (optional, only needed for the C API docs)
Building and installing
In order to get the libsigrokdecode source code and build it, run:
- $ git clone git://sigrok.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/sigrok/sigrok
- $ cd sigrok/libsigrokdecode
+ $ git clone git://sigrok.org/libsigrokdecode
+ $ cd libsigrokdecode
$ ./autogen.sh
$ ./configure
$ make
$ make install
-Please see the following wiki pages for more detailed instructions:
+See INSTALL or the following wiki page for more (OS-specific) instructions:
- http://sigrok.org/wiki/Linux
- http://sigrok.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X
- http://sigrok.org/wiki/Windows
- http://sigrok.org/wiki/FreeBSD
+ http://sigrok.org/wiki/Building
-Mailing lists
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+Copyright and license
+---------------------
-There are two mailing lists for sigrok/libsigrokdecode:
+libsigrokdecode is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License
+(GPL), version 3 or later.
+
+The protocol decoders (PDs) included in libsigrokdecode are an integral part
+of the shared library (they are not merely external "plugins", they are not
+external programs that libsigrokdecode calls via fork/exec, they cannot
+function standalone without libsigrokdecode at all, the PDs and the rest of
+the libsigrokdecode codebase share data structures and make function calls
+to each other). Thus, since the PDs are part of the library, they are also
+licensed under the terms of the GPLv3+.
+
+While some individual source code files are licensed under the GPLv2+, and
+some files are licensed under the GPLv3+, this doesn't change the fact that
+the library as a whole is licensed under the terms of the GPLv3+.
+
+Please see the individual source files for the full list of copyright holders.
+
+
+Mailing list
+------------
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sigrok-devel
- https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sigrok-commits
IRC
Website
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-http://sigrok.org
+ http://sigrok.org/wiki/Libsigrokdecode
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