README.md

About

This is a fork of the RXTX library with a focus on ease of use and embeddability in other libraries.

Some of the features we have added

• A simplified serial port object called NRSerialPort. See below for an example.

• Self-deployment of native libraries (all native code is stored inside the JAR and deployed at runtime). No more manual installation of native code.

• Arm Cortex support (Gumstix).

• Android Support (requires a rooted phone to access the serial hardware).

• Single Makefile compile which simplifies the compilation of project binaries.

• Gradle support for JAR creation.

• Removal of partially-implemented RXTX code to streamline the library for just serial port access.

• Full Eclipse integration for testing application code against sources.

• RFC 2217 support provided by incorporating the jvser library.

And a bunch of bug fixes

• Fixed the memory access error that causes OS X to crash the JVM when serial.close() is called.

• Fixed the Windows serial port zombie bind that prevents re-accessing serial ports when exiting on an exception.

• Fixed erroneous printouts of native library mis-match.

Dependency Management

Maven

<dependency>
  <groupId>com.neuronrobotics</groupId>
  <artifactId>nrjavaserial</artifactId>
  <version>3.12.1</version>
</dependency>

Building the JAR

1. Checkout the repository.

    $ git clone https://github.com/NeuronRobotics/nrjavaserial.git
   

2. Build with Gradle.

    $ cd nrjavaserial
    $ gradle build
   

The resulting JAR will be found in the build/libs/ directory.

Building Native Code

Native code is built using the Makefile found in the root of the repository. After the native code is built, the JAR is rebuilt.

# Build both the 32- and 64-bit Windows binaries.
$ make windows

# Build the windows binaries on Linux via Wine.
$ make wine

# Build both the 32- and 64-bit Linux x86 binaries.
$make linux

# Build 32- or 64-bit Linux binaries, respectively.
$ make linux32
$ make linux64

# Build the binaries for all the supported ARM flavors (requires arm-linux-geabi-* packages)
$ make arm

# Build the OSX binaries.
$ make osx

# Build the PPC binaries.
$ make ppc

Building on Windows

You'll need some installation of GCC. We recommend the TDM-GCC distribution of mingw64-w64.

Building on OS X

We're pretty big on maintaining backwards compatibility as far as reasonable. Our OS X natives target OS X 10.5, so to build them, you'll need an appropriate SDK installed. This StackOverflow answer provides pointers for getting the appropriate SDK installed.

How to use NRSerialPort objects

for(String s:NRSerialPort.getAvailableSerialPorts()){
		System.out.println("Availible port: "+s);
	}
String port = "COM3";
int baudRate = 115200;
NRSerialPort serial = new NRSerialPort(port, baudRate);
serial.connect();

DataInputStream ins = new DataInputStream(serial.getInputStream());
DataOutputStream outs = new DataOutputStream(serial.getOutputStream());

byte b = ins.read();
outs.write(b);

serial.disconnect();