safe-ftdi

Purpose

safe-ftdi is a set of (nominally!) safe API bindings to libftdi, implemented as a thin wrapper around libftdi1-sys. Functions from libftdi are implemented in safe-ftdi on an as-needed basis, and they are mostly named the same as their libftdi counterparts with the ftdi_ prefix stripped.

Documentation on specific functions will come soon, but the example directory contains a reimplementation of mercpcl, my old command-line application to program the flash on the Mercury FPGA development board using the bitbang mode of the FT245.

Prerequisites

libftdi1-sys requires the pkg-config crate everywhere except on Windows/MSVC, where it requires vcpkg, and so transitively safe-ftdi requires one of those as well. I have tested the bindings on the Windows MSVC environment, and the GNU ABI version of rustc.

The library in principle compiles on stable Rust 1.34 or greater, which is what is required by libftdi1-sys.

License

Licensed under either of

• Apache License, Version 2.0 (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)

• MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

at your discretion.

Contribution

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.