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The purpose of the new I/O interface is to provide a common interface for all existing I/O implementations (serial, IrDA, bluetooth and USB HID). With a common interface the dive computer backends can more easily use different I/O implementations at runtime, without needing significant code changes. For example bluetooth enabled devices can easily switch between native bluetooth communication and serial port emulation mode. The new interface is modelled after the existing serial communication api. Implementations where some of those functions are meaningless (e.g. IrDA, bluetooth and USB), can just leave those functions unimplemented (causing the call to fail with DC_STATUS_UNSUPPORTED), or implement it as a no-op (always return DC_STATUS_SUCCESS).
Overview ======== Libdivecomputer is a cross-platform and open source library for communication with dive computers from various manufacturers. The official web site is: http://www.libdivecomputer.org/ The sourceforge project page is: http://sourceforge.net/projects/libdivecomputer/ Installation ============ On UNIX-like systems (including Linux, Mac OS X, MinGW), use the autotools based build system. Run the following commands from the top directory (containing this file) to configure, build and install the library and utilities: $ ./configure $ make $ make install If you downloaded the libdivecomputer source code directly from the git source code repository, then you need to create the configure script as the first step: $ autoreconf --install To uninstall libdivecomputer again, run: $ make uninstall Support ======= Please send bug reports, feedback or questions to the mailing list: http://libdivecomputer.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devel or contact me directly: jef@libdivecomputer.org License ======= Libdivecomputer is free software, released under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). You can find a copy of the license in the file COPYING.