Serial Library

Author:

William Woodall <wjwwood@gmail.com>, John Harrison <ash@greaterthaninfinity.com>

What is serial?

Serial is a cross-platform, simple to use library for using serial ports on computers. This library provides a C++, object oriented interface for interacting with RS-232 like devices on Linux and Windows.

Want to use it with ROS(Robot Operating System)? No problem, it compiles as a unary stack.

Getting Started

Ready to jump in?

• Checkout our examples: serial_example.cc
• Look at the main class documentation: serial::Serial

Features

• Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows Support
• Easy to use interface (modeled after PySerial)
• Minimal dependencies (cmake)
• Complete timeout control serial::Serial::setTimeout
• Check and set handshaking lines (CTS, DSR, RI, CD and RTS, DTR)
• Block for changes in handshaking lines (Linux and Windows)
• Flush I/O separately and block until all writing done

Installation

Dependencies

• CMake:
  • CMake is required for building the system and can be located here: http://www.cmake.org/

Compiling

Once you have gathered the dependencies, you need to checkout the software from github.com:

    git clone git://github.com/wjwwood/serial.git

Once you have checked out the source code from github.com you can enter the directory and build the software.

    cd serial
    make
    make test # (optional) builds the example and tests, and runs the tests.
    make doc  # (optional) builds _this_ documentation.

Installing

To install simply:

    sudo make install