/libsmbios

library for interacting with Dell SMBIOS tables

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libsmbios

libsmbios provides a library to interface with the SMBIOS tables. It also provides extensions for proprietary methods of interfacing with Dell specific SMBIOS tables.

Dependencies

To build a libsmbios tarball, you will need the following dependencies, in whichever -devel package convention in use by your distribution:

  1. libxml

When building from a git-checkout, you will need the following additional dependencies

  1. autoconf
  2. automake
  3. gettext
  4. libtool

Building:

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".

License

This software is dual-licensed under GPL/OSL.

  • Copyright (C) 2005-2016 Dell Inc.

  • by Michael Brown Michael_E_Brown@dell.com

  • Licensed under the Open Software License version 2.1

  • Alternatively, you can redistribute it and/or modify

  • it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published

  • by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License,

  • or (at your option) any later version.

  • This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but

  • WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of

  • MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

  • See the GNU General Public License for more details.