Install

The library is provided as a source code archive. It must be built before use. This section briefly explains how to proceed. In addition to building the library this will also build demo programs (see [Demos]).

Obtain source code

The source code archive can be obtained from the sourceforge project's Files section. The archive is named libbuspirate-x.y.z.tar.gz where x.y.z denotes the release version.

The archive must then be uncompressed. This will create a directory with the same name as the archive, i.e. libbuspirate-x.y.z. To uncompress the archive proceed as follows:

host:user user$ tar xvzf libbuspirate-0.4.0.tar.gz
x libbuspirate-0.4.0/
x libbuspirate-0.4.0/aclocal.m4
x libbuspirate-0.4.0/AUTHORS
x libbuspirate-0.4.0/ChangeLog
x libbuspirate-0.4.0/compile
x libbuspirate-0.4.0/config.guess
(...)
host:user user$

Build

To build the library, proceed as follows, from the source code directory

host:user user$ cd libbuspirate-0.4.0
host:libbuspirate user$ ./configure
host:libbuspirate user$ make clean
host:libbuspirate user$ make

Install

The library can optionally be installed,

host:libbuspirate user$ make install

Note that this step is not required. The demonstration code and the library can be used straight from the source directory.

Development version

It is also possible to build the library from the sources obtained from the SVN repository.

svn checkout svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/libbuspirate/code/trunk libbuspirate-code

There is an additional step to proceed with : the configure script and Makefiles need to be generated. For this to work, you need to have automake, autoconf and libtool installed on your system.

Generating the build scripts is then as simple as running

host:libbuspirate user$ autoreconf -i