libsmbios provides a library to interface with the SMBIOS tables. It also provides extensions for proprietary methods of interfacing with Dell specific SMBIOS tables.
To build a libsmbios tarball, you will need the following dependencies, in whichever -devel package convention in use by your distribution:
- libxml
When building from a git-checkout, you will need the following additional dependencies
- autoconf
- automake
- gettext
- libtool
libmsbios is a standard autotools package. Build it like any autotools package:
$ ./configure
$ make
To build from a git checkout:
$ ./autogen.sh # autogen.sh internally runs configure automatically
$ make
RECOMMENDED Out of tree build. To build in a separate dir, leaving a clean source tree:
$ mkdir _build
$ ../configure
$ make
To Install:
Standard autotools package:
$ make install
Documentation is in doxygen format. To view the docs, run "make doxygen", then look in the out/libsmbios_c/html/index.html. Docs are also built as part of "make all".
This software is dual-licensed under GPL/OSL.
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Copyright (C) 2005-2016 Dell Inc.
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by Michael Brown Michael_E_Brown@dell.com
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Licensed under the Open Software License version 2.1
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Alternatively, you can redistribute it and/or modify
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it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published
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by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License,
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or (at your option) any later version.
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This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
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WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
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See the GNU General Public License for more details.