The libXA library

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Introduction

The libXA library allows communication with Sidena's Extralink (XA) packs. This library is written in C/C++, and aims at implementing for Linux systems the same functionalities as the XA.dll library provided by Sidena for Windows platforms.

This library was developed by ENSTAR (www.ensta.fr/~enstar), the robot club of the ENSTA engineering school (Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées, www.ensta.fr). This software is placed under the terms of the GPL.

Features

• send / receive simple messages
• send composed messages (without answer messages from the XA base)
• serial port support

Where to find this library

• Latest information: Homepage on sourceforge.net
• Last development version: SVN repository
• Stable releases: Download from SourceForge.net

Build, installation, and documentation

The provided Makefile allows building and installing the libXA dynamic library. After having edited the Makefile entries if necessary, just run:

make

to build the library, and:

make install

to install it.

The exec_test.c file provides examples on using this library. The exec_test target of the Makefile builds the corresponding binary executable.

The doc target of the Makefile generates this documentation using Doxygen.

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