Hi, Thanks for the reply. I've installed the complete library, and based on this page http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_35_0/doc/html/boost_asio.html and headers I have on my computer it does not look liek it's supported though... On 8/1/08, Casimiro, Daniel C CIV NUWC NWPT <daniel.casimiro@navy.mil> wrote:

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Is there a boost library available for serial communications (com port)? I could not find one based on the descriptions on the boost libraries page.

Boost::ASIO 1.1.1 supports serial ports. From the announcement,

The major new features in this release are:

* Support for serial ports.

New classes have been included for creating and manipulating serial ports in a portable manner. For example, a serial port may be opened using:

serial_port port(my_io_service, name);

where name is something like "COM1" on Windows, and "/dev/ttyS0" on POSIX platforms. Once opened the serial port may be used as a stream (meaning you can use the free functions such as read(), write(), etc.)

The serial port implementation also includes option classes for configuring the port: baud_rate, flow_control, parity, stop_bits and character_size.

Thanks go to Rep Invariant Systems, Inc. for contributing the initial implementation which was integrated into asio to provide this facility.

Boost::ASIO 1.1.1 is a development version (boost 1.35.0 ships ASIO 1.0.0) http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=122478&package_id= 134200&release_id=610981

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Jean-Sebastien Stoezel wrote:

Hi,

Thanks for the reply. I've installed the complete library, and based on this page http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_35_0/doc/html/boost_asio.html and headers I have on my computer it does not look liek it's supported though...

See the docs for version 1.1.1, here (search the page for "serial"): http://asio.sourceforge.net/boost_asio_1_1_1/libs/asio/doc/html/boost_asio/r... For more information, you can search the asio-users mailing list archive. I'm having a bit of trouble with the search feature on that page. However, if you browse, you can find at least a half dozen messages on the subject, since 2008-04-03: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=asio-users As Dan suggested, you must separately install version 1.1.1. To repeat his link, you can find it here: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=122478&package_id=1342... Matt