## Dependencies

- Qt 5, including SerialPort module

- Qwt 6.1

## Building

### Obtain Dependencies

- Qt5 development packages

- Qt5 SerialPort module

- CMake

- Mercurial

Under Ubuntu/Debian:

```sudo apt-get install qtbase5-dev libqt5serialport5-dev cmake mercurial```

### Download and Install Qwt

[Qwt](http://qwt.sourceforge.net) is the library that provides

plotting widgets for SerialPlot. You have 3 different options for Qwt.

* Leave it to serialplot build scripts. Qwt will be downloaded over

  SVN and built for you.

* If your linux distribution has `libqwt-qt5-dev` or `qwt-qt5-devel`

  package, install it and set `BUILD_QWT` cmake option to `false`.

* Download Qwt 6 [here](http://sourceforge.net/projects/qwt/files/)

  and build it yourself per these

  [instructions](http://qwt.sourceforge.net/qwtinstall.html#qwtinstall-unix)

  and install. Make sure you use Qt5 (not Qt4) to build. And set

  `BUILD_QWT` cmake option to `false`.

### Download and Build SerialPlot

You can use Mercurial to download SerialPlot source code. Or you can

download it from here:

https://bitbucket.org/hyOzd/serialplot/downloads

    hg clone https://hyOzd@bitbucket.org/hyOzd/serialplot

    cd serialplot

    mkdir build && cd build

    cmake ..

    make

You can also build with QtCreator IDE using `serialplot.pro` file.

## Known Issues

- Port error 13 happens when closing. This is a Qt issue. It's known

  to not happen with Qt 5.4.1 . Not fatal.

## License

This software is licensed under GPLv3. See file COPYING for details.