libnfc

This is download/development site of libnfc, the Free/Libre Near Field Communication (NFC) Library.

If you are new to libnfc, you should browse libnfc main site[¹] to collect useful information and have a look to our forum[²].

Installation

Installation steps are different depending on version you are willing to install.

Stable version

Please follow instructions present in our main website. http://www.libnfc.org/documentation/installation

Development version

Fetch current version using svn as described in this page: http://code.google.com/p/libnfc/source/checkout

You can compile trunk using:

Under MacOSX, GNU/Linux, *BSD and probably a lot of POSIX systems

Note: If you want all libnfc hardware drivers, you will need to have libusb (library and headers) plus on *BSD and GNU/Linux systems, libpcsclite (library and headers).

autoreconf -vis
./configure --enable-doc
make
sudo make install

If you want to (re)generate documentation:

make doc

links

[1] Official website: http://www.libnfc.org [2] Forum: http://www.libnfc.org/community