Libsercomm - A Multiplatform Serial Communications Library

libsercomm is a portable, pure C implementation library for serial communications.

What It Can Do

The library provides:

• access to serial port (r/w)
• serial ports discovery
• serial ports monitor (be notified when a new serial port is plugged or unplugged)
• descriptive and detailed error messages

Building libsercomm

The libsercomm library is built using CMake (version 3.0 or newer) on all platforms.

Under Unix-like systems, libsercomm expects pthreads to be available (they should be installed by default). On Linux, libudev is also required for device listing/monitoring support.

On most systems you can build the library using the following commands:

cmake -H. -Bbuild
cmake --build build

Build options

The following build options are available:

• WITH_EXAMPLES (OFF): When enabled, the library usage example applications will be built.
• WITH_DOCS (OFF): When enabled the API documentation can be built.
• WITH_ERRDESC (ON): When enabled, error details description can be obtained.
• WITH_GITINFO (OFF): When enabled, the current Git commit hash will be included in version. This may be useful to trace installed development builds.
• WITH_DEVMON (ON): When enabled, device listing and monitoring will be supported.
• WITH_PIC (OFF): When enabled, generated code will be position independent. This may be useful if you want to embed sercomm into a dynamic library.

Furthermore, standard CMake build options can be used. You may find useful to read this list of useful CMake variables.

Standards Compliance

libsercomm is written in ANSI C (C99).