This will come back in some form or another later, but for now
don't clutter the API with non-working stuff. Removing stuff from APIs
is not possible without breaking the API, adding stuff later is simpler.
Use SR_API to mark public API symbols, and SR_PRIV for private symbols.
Variables and functions marked 'static' are private already and don't
need SR_PRIV. However, functions which are not static (because they need
to be used in other libsigrok-internal files) but are also not meant to
be part of the public libsigrok API, must use SR_PRIV.
This uses the 'visibility' feature of gcc (requires gcc >= 4.0).
Details: http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/Visibility
In the lib, we should only #include "sigrok.h" or "sigrok-internal.h",
but not the (possibly installed and thus different/older versions) via
<sigrok.h> or <sigrok-internal.h>.
Frontends should of course use <sigrok.h> and <sigrok-internal.h>.
This is useful to allow frontends to react upon close failures in a
way they see fit (e.g. a popup in the GUI, or error message in the CLI).
They can also still ignore the error if they want, of course.
When initialized, the driver starts a thread that generates signal data.
This data is written to a pipe (write file descriptor).
The other end of the pipe (read file descriptor), is connected to the
main polling code, like any other driver.
Note: This patch adds a new dependency on libgthread.
At the moment, you can list the driver's device:
$ ./cli/sigrok-cli -D
The following devices were found:
ID Device
0 Sigrok project Demo Driver v1.0 with 8 probes
And use it for random signal generation:
$ /opt/sigrok/bin/sigrok-cli -d 0 --samples 50 -f bits -p 1-8
sigrok 0.1pre2
Acquisition with 8/8 probes at 0 Hz
1:10111100 11010110 00001011 00011110 00111010 11110100 10
2:11010110 00111111 01001010 11111101 11010011 00010010 11
3:11000101 01000001 10100011 10100100 10110000 11110011 00
4:00100111 11110100 10011101 01100111 00100101 01001110 10
5:00011100 00101100 10111000 11001101 01011101 01011011 01
6:10110101 10111110 10010110 10111000 11011010 10000100 11
7:11111111 01001111 11110110 11010010 10000101 01001111 00
8:01000101 01111110 01010111 00000111 00010010 00000101 11
The next step is to make demo driver customisable (per-probe signal clock,
reference sample signals : serial, I2C, CAN...).
Thanks Olivier Fauchon <olivier@aixmarseille.com> for the patch.
Use libtool "noinst" local helper libs and use one Makefile.am per
subdir, which is the usual/preferred method. These helper libraries are
purely local and will not be installed.
This also fixes out-of-tree builds of sigrok, i.e. building in a
directory other than the sigrok source directory, e.g.
$ cd /home/user
$ git clone ...sigrok
$ cd sigrok
$ ./autogen.sh
$ mkdir /tmp/foo
$ cd /tmp/foo
$ /home/user/sigrok/configure
$ make
$ make install
This will place all build results (.o files, .la files, etc) in the
local build directory (/tmp/foo) instead of the source directory
(/home/user/sigrok in this example). The installation directory is
selected via the --prefix configure option (/usr/local per default).