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libcasio - Library and utilities for using CASIO's protocols and file formats
This is the main repository for the P7 project, a project to free software surrounding CASIO calculators. It aims at being able to manage CASIO's proprietary protocols and file formats. It is basically a merge of three subprojects of the P7 project: the libp7, which managed protocols, the libg1m, which managed file formats, and the p7utils, which had the utilities now put in this repository.
Prerequisites
Side note : the library might work with older versions of these dependencies, I took these as a reference because these are the ones I work with.
Because of libusb, the library requires C99. Without it, it should compile using C89.
Build-only dependencies
Runtime dependencies
Configuring
First of all, the configure script has a help message where all of
the options are listed. The defaults should be appropriate for a native
build, just ./configure if that's what you want to do, but
you should read at least the next paragraph.
If you're installing on or packaging for a GNU/Linux distribution,
you might want to install the udev rule to let the access
to the direct calculator connexions to normal users. As calculators can
be connected as serial devices, which are attributed to the
uucp group (on Manjaro GNU/Linux), I chose to attribute the
uucp group to calculators plugged directly as USB. If you
agree with that, just add the --udev option to the
configuration command line; otherwise, make your own, or make nothing, I
don't really care.
Building for the MS-Windows platform is supported, just use a
-mingw32 BFD target for GCC and Binutils.
Also, building a static library, for both PC and embedded systems, is
supported : just use the --static option. If you want to
build a static library so that a cross-compiler that uses Microsoft
Windows static library formats, add the --windows option
(notice that for a -mingw32 target and a dynamic library
generation, this option is automatically added).
Building and installing
Once configuring is done (necessary step), just make. To
install, use make install.
To build and install only the lib, use all-lib then
install-lib. To build and install only the docs, use
all-doc and install-doc.
If you ought to package this library, use the DESTDIR
Makefile variable, e.g.
make install DESTDIR=./package-root. Do
not use the --root configure options for
this, as configure tools (libcasio-config and the
pkg-config configuration file) will add what's in the --root option value but not in the
DESTDIR option.
Other useful targets:
clean: remove built files;re: regenerate built files (clean and build) -- useful when configuration is changed.