I have an application in linux, which is compiled successfully.I want to run the same program in windows.
The necessary declarations and constants for termios can be found in the header file termios.h. So code for serial or terminal I/O will usually start with. #include termios.h. Some additional functions and declarations can also be found in the, and header files.
But compilation produces the following errors related to header files.
How can I fix this?
Shog9♦The Windows API is structurally and stylistically very different from the blend of system calls and library routines provided by any flavor of Unix.
Windows does terminal I/O with a very different model from any *nix system. As a result, there really is no direct equivalent to the termios.h
header and its friends.
You want to read at MSDN about the Windows Communications Resources.
Some things to learn more about include:
In general, you will find that you need to deal a lot more with the Windows API directly because stdio
will add to the confusion when doing device I/O.
There isn't a direct equivalent to the Unix select(2) system call.
In Windows, many kernel objects can be in either a signaled or non-signaled state, and the act of signalling the object can be used to release a thread that called WaitForMultipleObjects()
. Some but not all HANDLE
objects are signaled when data is available. Specifically, I know that HANDLE
s from WinSock have that capability, but I don't know about the Comm API. I know that HANDLE
s to an open file do not.
If you need to wait for an event in a thread that is processing window messages, then you should probably use MsgWaitForMultipleObjects()
instead, since it will properly deliver messages while the thread is otherwise blocked.
Read about the Windows synchronization primitives at the MSDN article Using Synchronization.
However, there are several kinds of asynchronous I/O built into Windows that can replace the need for select()
by a change of design. Both will require extensive use of features that cannot be used in combination with the C stdio library.
MSDN has several articles on I/O techniques, as well as numerous examples:
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(especially the Remarks section)Note that much of the information on how Windows works is scattered among the overview articles and the remarks sections of the reference material for the API functions and structures. This can give the impression that nothing is completely documented on a first reading.
Another approach is to use Cygwin to do the port. It provides most of a POSIX layer over the Windows API. However, you will end up with an application that is dependent on the Cygwin DLL which is GPL unless you purchase a commercial use license from them. It can be tricky to use Cygwin to get an application that works well for a Windows user with no Unix experience also, since so many other assumptions about the way the two systems are setup and used differ.
Cygwin has done a fair amount of heavy lifting to build an implementation of select()
that works on Windows given a mix of different open file descriptors. This effort is described in the User's Guide.
Do be aware that building against Cygwin is only documented and supported if done from within the Cygwin environment. It usually is not sufficient to just put Cygwin's bin on the Windows PATH and work from a command prompt. You really need to launch Cygwin's build of bash and compile from there so that everything is using the same Cygwin-style mount points and simulated Unix file structure.
Mixing Cygwin header files with third-party tool header files is a sure path to madness.
Edit: I've rearranged a bit, and added some material in response to comments.
RBerteigRBerteigI created 2 files using code I found in some forums to circumvent windows.h and windows com port libraries:
'nowindows.h'
and
'nowindowscomport.h'
Jan Gerlinger~ A termios porting for Windows ~
Current Version 1.1.4 (03/11/2018)
termiWin is a library which purpose is to allow you to use on a Windows system, the same code used in Linux to communicate with a device through a serial port.This is possible because termios’s functions have been rewritten to be compatible with Windows’s COM functions.
This is the main structure of the library and it’s often passed as argument to the functions, it has the following members:
where tcflag_t is defined as an unsigned integer.
The members of termios structure are used to set and retrieve the serial port configuration parameters.There five types of flags, sorted by mode; they are implemented in the same way as they are in termios, except for some, which are not used.
Since there’s no way to implement them in Windows, they have asbolutely no effect using termiWin, but you can keep the same you use in Linux for compatibilty.
Since there’s no way to implement them in Windows, they have asbolutely no effect using termiWin, but you can keep the same you use in Linux for compatibilty.
Sets in the internal DCB structures the current serial port parameters, italways has to be invoked before using tcsetattr.
Returns 0 if succeded, otherwise -1.
Reads the flags set in the termios structure and sets the properlyparameters in the DCB structure and eventually it applies the parameters to the serial port.Returns 0 if succeded, otherwise -1.
Sends a break character to the serial port; duration is not implemented.Returns 0 if succeded, otherwise -1.
Waits until all output written to the serial port has been transmitted.Returns 0 if succeded, otherwise -1.
Discards data on serial port. queue_selector can assume the following values:
You do not want to worry about data verification. It all will do by this software automatically.
Returns 0 if succeded, otherwise -1.
Suspends transmission or receptions of data on serial port based on action. Action can assume the following values:
Returns 0 if succeded, otherwise -1.
Sets but doesn’t commit the following options for the serial port:
Use tcsetattr to commit them.
Returns the input speed, speed can assume the same values of termios (B9600, B115200, …).
returns the output speed, speed can assume the same values of termios (B9600, B115200, …).
Sets, but doesn’t commits the parameter of speed for the serial port (in Windows there’s no distinction betweeninput/output /control), speed can assume the same values of termios (B9600, B115200, …).
Returns 0 if succeded, otherwise -1.
Sets, but doesn’t commits the parameter of speed for the serial port (in Windows there’s no distinction between input/output/control), speed can assume the same values of termios (B9600, B115200, ..).Returns 0 if succeded, otherwise -1.
Sets, but doesn’t commits the parameter of speed for the serial port (in Windows there’s no distinction between input/output/control), speed can assume the same values of termios (B9600, B115200, ..).Returns 0 if succeded, otherwise -1.
The supported speeds are the the following (not all speeds could be implemented since some of them can't be used in a Windows environment)
You can use open/close/write/read/select instead of these names by default. If it causes to you conflicts with another library you can deactivate these definitions defining in your project:
Open the serial port which name is portname with opt set for the port to be read only, write only or both read/write (O_RDONLY,O_WRONLY, O_RDWR). Returns the file descriptor (fd is actually useless in Windows with serial ports, but is set forcompatibilty). The function can be called using open instead of openSerial (for termios compatibilty).
The portname must be in the format 'COMnumber' (e.g. COM2, COM11).
Closes the serial port.Returns 0 if succeded, otherwise -1. The function can be called using close instead of closeSerial. (for termios compatibilty).
Writes to serial “count” characters contained in buffer.Returns the number of transmitted characters or -1 if transmission failed.The function can be called using write instead of writeToSerial (for termios compatibilty).
Reads “count” bytes from serial port and put them into buffer.Returns the number of read bytes or -1 if read failed.The function can be called using read instead of readFromSerial (for termios compatibilty).
It behaves as termios select.Returns the file descriptor ready for the chosen operation or -1 if failed.The function can be called using select instead of selectSerial (for termios compatibility).
Returns the HANDLE from the COM structure.
At the moment is not possible to have more than one serial communication at the same time, this because it would be pretty complicated to implement in this library something which allows you to do that. I've thought of some solutions, but I'll try them when I have some time off.
termiWin is just a simple library which executes termios functions using Windows libsock functions, because of that, any particular behaviour in the communication with the serial device, could not work properly. termiWin is intended just for simple communications.
When termiWin can be a good choice?
When termiWin Is NOT a good choice?
Everybody can contribute to this project, indeed any improvement will be appreciated.
Well, I'm not working on it anymore, but I will answer to your questions and I will submit pull requests if they can be an improvement to the library.
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