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Romain Tartière edited this page Apr 3, 2017 · 3 revisions

libnfc

This is development site of libnfc, the Free/Libre Near Field Communication (NFC) Library.

Prepared archives, with less development tools required, are available at https://bintray.com/nfc-tools/sources/libnfc

If you are new to libnfc, you should browse its dedicated wiki page[¹] to collect useful information and have a look to our forum[²].

What can you do with libnfc?

There are plenty of projects based on libnfc. A few of them originate from the same development team, you can find more info on them on the nfc-tools wiki[³] and nfc-tools project[⁴]

Installation

Installation steps are different depending on version you are willing to install.

Stable version

Please follow instructions present in our main website. http://www.libnfc.org/documentation/installation

Development version

Fetch current version using Git as usual on GitHub

You can compile development version using:

Under MacOSX, GNU/Linux, *BSD and probably a lot of POSIX systems

Note: If you want all libnfc hardware drivers, you will need to have libusb (library and headers) plus on *BSD and GNU/Linux systems, libpcsclite (library and headers).

autoreconf -vis
./configure --enable-doc
make
sudo make install

If you want to (re)generate documentation:

make doc

Links

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