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- A groovy modbus library
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-=========================
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-
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-Overview
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---------
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-libmodbus is a free software library to send/receive data with a
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-device which respects the Modbus protocol. This library can use a
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-serial port or an Ethernet connection.
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-The functions included in the library have been derived from the
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-Modicon Modbus Protocol Reference Guide which can be obtained from
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-Schneider at www.schneiderautomation.com.
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-
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-The license of libmodbus is LGPL v2.1 or later and the licence of programs in
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-tests directory is GPL v3.
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-
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-The documentation is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike
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-License 3.0 (Unported) (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/).
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-The official website is http://www.libmodbus.org.
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-The library is written in C and designed to run on Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD and
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-QNX and Windows.
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-
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-Installation
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-To instal, just run the usual dance, ``./configure && make install`` and run
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-``./autogen.sh`` first if the ``configure.sh`` is not present.
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-
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-If you want to compile with Microsoft Visual Studio, you need to install
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-http://code.google.com/p/msinttypes/ to fill the absence of stdint.h.
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-
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-To compile under Windows, install `MinGW <http://www.mingw.org/>`_ and MSYS then
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-select the common packages (gcc, automake, libtool, etc).
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-
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-Testing
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--------
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-Some tests are provided in the ``tests`` directory, you can
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-freely edit the source code to fit your needs (it's Free Sofware :).
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-See ``tests/README`` for a description of each program.
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-Report a Bug
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-To report a bug, you can:
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- * fill a bug report on the issue tracker
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- http://github.com/stephane/libmodbus/issues
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- * or send an email to stephane.raimbault@gmail.com
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Stéphane Raimbault