mirror of original libmodbus repo with GfA extensions

Stéphane Raimbault 8513555868 Fix check on file doc/libmodbus.7 in acinclude.m4 (closes #28) vor 14 Jahren
debian c0cac3d92c Appoint Ivo De Decker as Debian package maintainer vor 14 Jahren
doc 201a2f294e Small documentation fixes by shagol (closes #20). vor 14 Jahren
src c1b5d58583 Close file descriptor when the settings don't apply in RTU vor 14 Jahren
tests 610ff3b765 unit-test.h is now generated to avoid config.h dependency vor 14 Jahren
.dir-locals.el 66c59d6f85 Change indent level from 8 to 4 vor 15 Jahren
.gitignore 610ff3b765 unit-test.h is now generated to avoid config.h dependency vor 14 Jahren
AUTHORS c44dcfd5a2 Make the TCP implementation "protocol independent", i.e. IPv6 capable. vor 14 Jahren
COPYING a017c19f2a GNU licenses updated to the version 3. vor 15 Jahren
COPYING.LESSER 12753875b5 Revert libmodbus licence from LGPLv3 to LGPLv2.1 vor 14 Jahren
MIGRATION 7e673738b6 Minor change about version to MIGRATION vor 14 Jahren
Makefile.am 6254ede915 Add documentation based on AsciiDoc tools vor 14 Jahren
NEWS 9c3f5c7144 Move 'RTS flow control' NEWS entry in 3.1.0 section vor 14 Jahren
README.rst 12753875b5 Revert libmodbus licence from LGPLv3 to LGPLv2.1 vor 14 Jahren
acinclude.m4 8513555868 Fix check on file doc/libmodbus.7 in acinclude.m4 (closes #28) vor 14 Jahren
autogen.sh 2904b5dddd Remove configure call in autogen.sh script vor 15 Jahren
configure.ac 610ff3b765 unit-test.h is now generated to avoid config.h dependency vor 14 Jahren
libmodbus.pc.in 63871ff304 Add modbus directory to include path of pkg-config file vor 15 Jahren
libmodbus.spec.in a92ea2ebc9 Add again libtool as build requirement in spec file vor 14 Jahren

README.rst

=========================
A groovy modbus library
=========================

Overview
--------

libmodbus is a free software library to send/receive data with a
device which respects the Modbus protocol. This library can use a
serial port or an Ethernet connection.

The functions included in the library have been derived from the
Modicon Modbus Protocol Reference Guide which can be obtained from
Schneider at www.schneiderautomation.com.

The license of libmodbus is LGPL v2.1 or later and the licence of programs in
tests directory is GPL v3.

The documentation is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike
License 3.0 (Unported) (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/).

The official website is http://www.libmodbus.org.

The library is written in C and designed to run on Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD and
QNX and Windows.

Installation
------------

The shell commands are ``./autogen.sh; ./configure; make; make install``.

If you want to compile with Microsoft Visual Studio, you need to install
http://code.google.com/p/msinttypes/ to fill the absence of stdint.h.

Testing
-------

Some tests are provided in the ``tests`` directory, you can
freely edit the source code to fit your needs (it's Free Sofware :).

See ``tests/README`` for a description of each program.

Report a Bug
------------

To report a bug, you can:
* fill a bug report on the issue tracker
http://github.com/stephane/libmodbus/issues
* or send an email to stephane.raimbault@gmail.com