Please read the Lothar document.

• CMake
• LibUSB 1.0
• (optional, Linux only) Bluez
• (optional) Python
• (optional) Google Test and Google Mock
• (optional) Doxygen

Lothar uses CMake to generate project files for most popular IDES. To produce Makefiles for a typical unix-like system do something like:

$ cmake /path/to/source
$ make
$ make install

If you have Google Test and Google Mock installed (this should be automagically detected by CMake), you can now also run the unit tests if you want:

$ ./lothar_tests

Or generate the documentation with:

$ make doc

And you can install the python module:

$ python setup.py build
$ python setup.py install

To start writing your applications, Lothars core program is written in C. Its headers should have been installed $PREFIX/include/lothar (.h denote C headers, .hh denote C++ headers) and the library in $PREFIX/lib, make sure you link against it (i.e. pass -llothar to your linker).

If you prefer something jazzier than C, wrappers are provided for C++ and Python. For C++ you can find the headers in the same place (the .hh files are for C++), and you need to pass -llothar++ to your linker.

For Python some examples - for the ShooterBot and the ColorSorter standard models - are included in examples/ in the source tree.