Difference between revisions of "Libserialport"

Revision as of 15:53, 23 November 2014

libserialport is a minimal, cross-platform shared library written in C that is intended to take care of the OS-specific details when writing software that uses serial ports.

It is licensed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License, version 3 or later.

Note: While libserialport is hosted on sigrok.org (and sigrok uses libserialport), this is a completely independent library that can be used by other projects as well. The libserialport library does not depend on any sigrok related libraries or projects.

Supported operating systems

Linux
Mac OS X
Windows
Android

API documentation

You can browse the API documentation of the library online.

Distribution packages

See Downloads.

Getting the code

$ git clone git://sigrok.org/libserialport

You can also browse the source code via gitweb.

Building from source

$ ./autogen.sh
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install

Note: There are no dependencies (i.e., no other libraries are needed to build/use libserialport).

Debugging

To examine problems related to libserialport, verbose debug output can be enabled by setting the environment variable LIBSERIALPORT_DEBUG to any value.

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 '''libserialport''' is a minimal, cross-platform shared library written in C that is intended to take care of the OS-specific details when writing software that uses serial ports.
-It is licensed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License, version 3 or later.
+It is licensed under the terms of the '''GNU Lesser General Public License, version 3 or later'''.
 '''''Note:''' While libserialport is hosted on sigrok.org (and sigrok uses libserialport), this is a completely independent library that can be used by other projects as well. The libserialport library does '''not''' depend on any sigrok related libraries or projects.''