Re: RS232/Serial Comms

[David Bateman]

muellerp11811 wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I wrote something in C++ that needs to be compiled with the National
> Instruments VISA library from
> 
> ftp://ftp.ni.com/support/visa/drivers/
> 
> It writes/reads to USB, GPIB, IEEE1394, TCPIP and other VISA servers.
> 
> It runs on WinXP with Octave 2.9.9+ (compiled with MSVC2005; Setting up
> mkoctfile is not so nice on WinXP.)
> 
> It should also run on Linux, OSX, Solaris. To be compiled with the gcc. But
> I do not know were to post it.
> 
> As the stuff is source code only it should also be compliant to GPL.
> 
> peter


Firstly why do you even need anything special to read/write to a serial
port? Not sure under windows, but under linux its as simple as
reading/writing to the device file.

In any case John pointed out the licensing issues, and so maybe you
should look at the COMEDI library at http://www.comedi.org, which
supports a number of acquisition cards like NI does. Not sure about
GPIB, USB, etc..

D.