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authorSudar Muthu <sudar@sudarmuthu.com>2016-08-25 22:32:16 +0530
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2016-08-25 22:32:16 +0530
commit7c28446e5e685bc01f8a1bfee87275701ad03c6a (patch)
treebac95e549f74bcbc1cfe7e8eaf22ce6427d6dc78
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Merge pull request #449 from sovcik/master
PySerial installation for Windows updated
-rw-r--r--HISTORY.md1
-rw-r--r--README.md16
2 files changed, 15 insertions, 2 deletions
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@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ I tried to give credit whenever possible. If I have missed anyone, kindly add it
- Fix: Updated CXXFLAGS_STD to match upstream 1.6 (issue #424) (https://github.com/calvinli)
- Fix: Added support for attiny core's use of chip instead of cpu in submenus (https://github.com/straccio)
- Fix: ARDUINO_VERSION can cope with the longer 1.6.10 version string (issue #444) (https://github.com/sej7278)
+- Tweak: Documentation for Windows updated to include installation of PySerial (https://github.com/sovcik)
### 1.5.1 (Debian version: 1.5-3) (2016-02-22)
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 0ac086d..92e867d 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -122,8 +122,20 @@ sudo port install py27-serial
On Windows:
-You need to install Cygwin and its packages for Make, Perl and the following Serial library
-or you can install it using the [pre-built package installer](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyserial)
+You need to install Cygwin and its packages for Make, Perl and the following Serial library.
+
+Assuming you included Python in your Cygwin installation:
+
+1. download PySerial source package from [https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyserial](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyserial)
+2. extract downloaded package running
+```tar xvzf dowloaded_package_name.tar.gz```
+3. navigate to extracted package folder
+4. build and install Python module:
+
+```
+python setup.py build
+python setup.py install
+```
## Usage