Getting started

Download library

Library is primarly hosted on Github.

  • Download latest release from releases area on Github

  • Clone develop branch for latest development

Download from releases

All releases are available on Github releases area.

Clone from Github

First-time clone

  • Download and install git if not already

  • Open console and navigate to path in the system to clone repository to. Use command cd your_path

  • Clone repository with one of available 3 options

    • Run git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/MaJerle/lwgps command to clone entire repository, including submodules

    • Run git clone --recurse-submodules --branch develop https://github.com/MaJerle/lwgps to clone development branch, including submodules

    • Run git clone --recurse-submodules --branch master https://github.com/MaJerle/lwgps to clone latest stable branch, including submodules

  • Navigate to examples directory and run favourite example

Update cloned to latest version

  • Open console and navigate to path in the system where your resources repository is. Use command cd your_path

  • Run git pull origin master --recurse-submodules command to pull latest changes and to fetch latest changes from submodules

  • Run git submodule foreach git pull origin master to update & merge all submodules

Note

This is preferred option to use when you want to evaluate library and run prepared examples. Repository consists of multiple submodules which can be automatically downloaded when cloning and pulling changes from root repository.

Add library to project

At this point it is assumed that you have successfully download library, either cloned it or from releases page.

  • Copy lwgps folder to your project

  • Add lwgps/src/include folder to include path of your toolchain

  • Add source files from lwgps/src/ folder to toolchain build

  • Build the project

Minimal example code

Run below example to test and verify library

Test verification code
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/**
 * This example uses direct processing function
 * to process dummy NMEA data from GPS receiver
 */
#include "lwgps/lwgps.h"
#include <string.h>
#include <stdio.h>

/* GPS handle */
lwgps_t hgps;

/**
 * \brief           Dummy data from GPS receiver
 */
const char
gps_rx_data[] = ""
                "$GPRMC,183729,A,3907.356,N,12102.482,W,000.0,360.0,080301,015.5,E*6F\r\n"
                "$GPRMB,A,,,,,,,,,,,,V*71\r\n"
                "$GPGGA,183730,3907.356,N,12102.482,W,1,05,1.6,646.4,M,-24.1,M,,*75\r\n"
                "$GPGSA,A,3,02,,,07,,09,24,26,,,,,1.6,1.6,1.0*3D\r\n"
                "$GPGSV,2,1,08,02,43,088,38,04,42,145,00,05,11,291,00,07,60,043,35*71\r\n"
                "$GPGSV,2,2,08,08,02,145,00,09,46,303,47,24,16,178,32,26,18,231,43*77\r\n"
                "$PGRME,22.0,M,52.9,M,51.0,M*14\r\n"
                "$GPGLL,3907.360,N,12102.481,W,183730,A*33\r\n"
                "$PGRMZ,2062,f,3*2D\r\n"
                "$PGRMM,WGS84*06\r\n"
                "$GPBOD,,T,,M,,*47\r\n"
                "$GPRTE,1,1,c,0*07\r\n"
                "$GPRMC,183731,A,3907.482,N,12102.436,W,000.0,360.0,080301,015.5,E*67\r\n"
                "$GPRMB,A,,,,,,,,,,,,V*71\r\n";

int
main() {
    /* Init GPS */
    lwgps_init(&hgps);

    /* Process all input data */
    lwgps_process(&hgps, gps_rx_data, strlen(gps_rx_data));

    /* Print messages */
    printf("Valid status: %d\r\n", hgps.is_valid);
    printf("Latitude: %f degrees\r\n", hgps.latitude);
    printf("Longitude: %f degrees\r\n", hgps.longitude);
    printf("Altitude: %f meters\r\n", hgps.altitude);

    return 0;
}