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README
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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.
libsigrok is a shared library written in C which provides the basic API
for talking to logic analyzer hardware and reading/writing the acquired data
into various input/output file formats.
Requirements
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- git
- gcc (>= 4.0)
- make
- autoconf >= 2.63
- automake >= 1.11
- libtool
- pkg-config >= 0.22
- libglib >= 2.22.0
- libusb >= 1.0.5 (for most logic analyzer hardware)
- libzip >= 0.8
- libftdi >= 0.16 (for some logic analyzer hardware)
- libudev >= 151 (for some logic analyzer hardware)
Building and installing
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In order to get the libsigrok source code and build it, run:
$ git clone git://sigrok.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/sigrok/sigrok
$ cd sigrok/libsigrok
$ ./autogen.sh
$ ./configure
$ make
For installing libsigrok:
$ make install
Please see the following wiki pages for more detailed instructions:
http://sigrok.org/wiki/Linux
http://sigrok.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X
http://sigrok.org/wiki/Windows
http://sigrok.org/wiki/FreeBSD
Firmware
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Some devices supported by libsigrok need a firmware to be uploaded before the
device can be used.
The default location where libsigrok expects the firmware files is:
$prefix/share/sigrok-firmware
($prefix is usually /usr/local or /usr, depending on your ./configure options)
For further information see:
http://sigrok.org/wiki/Firmware
Mailing lists
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There are two mailing lists for sigrok/libsigrok:
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sigrok-devel
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sigrok-commits
IRC
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You can find the sigrok developers in the #sigrok IRC channel on Freenode.
Website
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http://sigrok.org