I would like to write a simple gpsd client, but I would like the code to be completely outside of the gpsd source tree and built completely independently.
Does 'scons install' for gpsd install enough libs/headers for me to compile an external, independent client?
When I look at my system, I see that libgpsdpacket.so is installed in /usr/local/lib. There is a bunch of python stuff installed (which is cool, but I'm ignoring for now.) I see the gps.h file in /usr/local/include.
But when I try to do something 'simple' like compile gpxlogger.c outside of the gpsd devel tree I get missing symbols for things like gps_open(), gps_close(), etc. I tried linking with -lgpsdpacket because that is the only library that got installed (as far as I can tell) but that doesn't seem to be the right thing:
gcc -o gpxlogger gpxlogger.c -lgpsdpacket
It seems like all the supporting libs for writing client code are compiled staticly, exist only in the gpsd source tree, and are never installed system wide? Did I make a mistake in running "scons install"? Is there additional scons commands to run to install client devel libraries? Way back in the way back I wrote a gpsd client using pure socket calls (no gpsd libs at all). Would that approach still work? Is there a recommended approach for what I'm trying to do? I feel like I've missed something here, so I'm taking a break from exploring the code and build system and asking the dumb questions.
Thanks!
Curt.
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Curtis Olson
University of Minnesota, Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, UAS Lab