README.md

Serial Port library for sendind and receiving data

Install Build Tools

sudo apt-get install python-catkin-tools

Build Library:

cd
mkdir catkin_ws #if a workspace does not already exist
cd catkin_ws
git clone https://github.com/rosmod/lib-serial.git src/lib-serial
catkin build serial

Update Library:

cd ~/catkin_ws
catkin clean serial
cd src/lib-serial
git pull
cd ..
catkin build serial

Rosmod Source Library Setup:

1. In this github repo navigate to releases, right click on serial.zip (not the source code zip!) and select `Copy link address'
2. In a rosmod project, drag in a new source library to the software model
3. Paste the link in the url attribute
4. Name the source library serial
5. Drag the library into the set editor of any component that uses it
6. In the forwards section of the component add #include "serial/SerialPort.h"