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| author | Sudar Muthu <sudar@sudarmuthu.com> | 2016-08-25 22:32:16 +0530 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2016-08-25 22:32:16 +0530 |
| commit | 7c28446e5e685bc01f8a1bfee87275701ad03c6a (patch) | |
| tree | bac95e549f74bcbc1cfe7e8eaf22ce6427d6dc78 | |
| parent | 0ec1489414f0bd7fbc9569d334984ef737c9f2a9 (diff) | |
| parent | 2dd7c567c03a343038a0d702b32aa94e2021873d (diff) | |
Merge pull request #449 from sovcik/master
PySerial installation for Windows updated
| -rw-r--r-- | HISTORY.md | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | README.md | 16 |
2 files changed, 15 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -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) @@ -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 |