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authorJozef Sovcik <jsdev2015@gmail.com>2016-08-25 18:36:01 +0200
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2016-08-25 18:36:01 +0200
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@@ -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