Linux Simple I/O Library

libsimpleio is an attempt to encapsulate (as much as possible) the ugliness of Linux I/O device access. It provides services for the following types of I/O devices:

• Industrial I/O Subsystem A/D (Analog to Digital) Converter Devices
• Industrial I/O Subsystem D/A (Digital to Analog) Converter Devices
• GPIO (General Purpose Input/Output) Pins
• Raw HID (Human Interface Device) Devices
• I²C (Inter-Integrated Circuit) Bus Devices
• Labview LINX Remote I/O Devices
• PWM (Pulse Width Modulated) Output Devices
• Remote I/O Protocol Devices
• Serial Ports
• SPI (Serial Peripheral Interface) Bus Devices
• Stream Framing Protocol Devices
• TCP and UDP over IPv4 Network Devices
• Watchdog Timer Devices

Although libsimpleio was originally intended for Linux microcomputers such as the Raspberry Pi, it can also be useful on larger desktop Linux systems.

The C wrapper functions exported by libsimpleio all follow the same uniform pattern:

• All C wrapper functions are proper procedures (void f() in C).
• All input arguments of primitive types (int, float, etc.) are passed by value.
• All output arguments of primitive types are passed by reference (int *, float *, etc.).
• All composite types are passed by reference.
• int32_t is used wherever possible for int and bool arguments.

All of the C wrapper functions are declared between _BEGIN_STD_C and _END_STD_C for C++. Binding modules are provided for Ada, C#, Java, and Free Pascal. Additional source code libraries are provided for Ada, C++, C#, Java, and Free Pascal that define OOP (Object Oriented Programming) classes for libsimpleio.

News

• 8 January 2020 -- Added LINUX_errno(). Added libmodbus bindings and objects for Ada.
• 31 January 2020 -- Added .gpr project files to ada/programs/libsimpleio/, ada/programs/libsimpleio/mcp2221/, and ada/programs/libsimpleio/remoteio to allow building native programs with just gprbuild, using a command like:

  gprbuild libsimpleio.gpr -p test_userled
  

  Reworked Ada make files to allow building Windows applications in Windows Subsystem for Linux. Until now, using the make files on Windows required using Cygwin.
• 1 February 2020 -- Added links to Make With Ada projects.
• 2 February 2020 -- Flattened the csharp/ directory tree.
• 7 February 2020 -- Added .Net Core 3.1 project templates for both libsimpleio and libremoteio. Install these from NuGet with the following commands:

  dotnet new -i libsimpleio-templates
  dotnet new -i libremoteio-templates
  

• 10 February 2020 -- Renamed NuGet package libsimpleio-standard to libsimpleio. Renamed NuGet package libremoteio-standard to libremoteio. Dropped support for building .Net Framework applications with csc.exe.
• 12 February 2020 -- Added Visual Studio project templates for libsimpleio and libremoteio for C# console applications for .Net Core and .Net Framework.

Documentation

The user manual for libsimpleio is available at UserManual.pdf.

The man pages specifying the libsimpleio API are available at libsimpleio.html.

Git Repository

The source code is available at:

https://github.com/pmunts/libsimpleio

Use the following command to clone it:

git clone https://github.com/pmunts/libsimpleio.git

Package Repository

Prebuilt packages for Debian Linux are available at:

Make With Ada Projects

• 2017 Ada Embedded Linux Framework
• 2019 Modbus RTU Framework for Ada

I am available for custom system development (hardware and software) of products using ARM Linux or other microcomputers.