• NOTE: As of March 2015, this is the new location of the project. The sourceforge and googlecode projects are no longer active .
• "New old" version of QextSerialPort available in Downloads section. See Qesp Mailing List for explanation.
• From QextSerialPort 1.2-beta1 on, license of the project has been changed to MIT .

Overview

QextSerialPort provides an interface to old fashioned serial ports for Qt-based applications. It currently supports Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, FreeBSD.

QextSerialPort can be used with Qt2, Qt3, Qt4 and Qt5.

Download

You can get the latest source from HERE .

Or get one of the released versions from ALL Downloads

Installation

Installation instructions can be found from the README file in the source package.

An online and more readable version for QextSerialPort_1_2_RC is available too.

Documents

Offline

The user manual of the library is included in the latest qextserialport-XXX.tar.gz packages.

Open the file doc/html/index.html using your favorite web browser.

Or integrate the doc/html/qesp.qch into your Qt Creator.

• For Qt Assistant:

 Edit ==> Documentations ==> Add ...  

• For Qt Creator

 Tools ==> Options ==> Help ==> Documentations ==> Add ...  

Online

• QextSerialPort 1.2
• QextSerialPort 1.1
• QextSerialPort 0.9

Resources

Resources for Serial Port Developer of Qt.

• Qt Project
• Qt 4.8: QIODevice Class Reference
• Writing a Custom I/O Device
• Qt 3.3: QIODevice Class Reference
• MSDN
• Communications Resources
• About Communications Resources
• Using Communications Resources
• Communications Functions
• Communications Structures
• TLDP
• Serial HOWTO
• Serial Programming HOWTO
• Other
• Serial Programming Guide for POSIX Operating Systems