libmendeleev is a free software library to send/receive data with a device which respects the Mendeleev protocol. This library can use a serial port.

The functions included in the library have been based on the Modbus RTU Protocol implemented in libmodbus www.libmodbus.org.

The license of libmendeleev is LGPL v2.1 or later.

The library is written in C and designed to run on Linux.

You will only need to install automake, autoconf, libtool and a C compiler (gcc or clang) to compile the library and asciidoc and xmlto to generate the documentation (optional).

To install, just run the usual dance, ./configure && make install. Run ./autogen.sh first to generate the configure script if required.

You can change installation directory with prefix option, eg. ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/. You have to check that the installation library path is properly set up on your system (/etc/ld.so.conf.d) and library cache is up to date (run ldconfig as root if required).

The library provides a libmendeleev.pc file to use with pkg-config to ease your program compilation and linking.