Near Field Communication manager

Copyright (C) 2011 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.

Compilation and installation

In order to compile neard you need following software packages:

• GCC compiler
• D-Bus library
• GLib library
• Netlink (libnl) library, version 1 or 2.

To configure run: ./configure --prefix=/usr

Configure automatically searches for all required components and packages.

To compile and install run: make && make install

Configuration and options

By default all neard plugins and features are built in. They can be disabled with the following configuration options:

--disable-nfctype1

    Disable support for type 1 NFC tags.

--disable-nfctype2

    Disable support for type 2 NFC tags.

--disable-nfctype3

    Disable support for type 3 NFC tags.

--disable-nfctype4

    Disable support for type 1 NFC tags.

--disable-nfctype5

    Disable support for type 5 ISO 15693 tags.

--disable-p2p

    Disable support for peer to peer mode.

Running ./bootstrap-configure will build the configure script and then run it, with maintainer mode enabled. bootstrap-configure will configure neard with all features enabled.

Bugs and contributing

Please send bug reports to mailing list: linux-nfc@lists.01.org

The project development happens on GitHub: https://github.com/linux-nfc/neard

However for historical reasons the releases are also mirrored on kernel.org repository: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/network/nfc/neard.git/

Contributions can come in a form of patches sent to linux-nfc@lists.01.org or GitHub pull requests on mentioned GitHub repository.

See also HACKING and doc/coding-style.txt files.