"Brian Hay" <b...@construct3d.com> wrote in message news:hk51h7$1t3...@digitalmars.com... > I'm a bit green with D. I've done some basic D1 + Tango + Derelict stuff > but am keen to learn more about D2 + Phobos. > > As a learning project I thought I'd like to try reading/writing data > streams from/to RS232 and/or USB devices, something I've never done before > in any language. > > Can anyone give me some pointers and online references? Are there any D > libraries for this?
If you're doing it on Windows, there's the "inpout32.dll" ( http://logix4u.net/Legacy_Ports/Parallel_Port/Inpout32.dll_for_Windows_98/2000/NT/XP.html ) that's commonly used for basic hardware I/O (or at least for the old standard serial/parallel ports). I've used it in a C program before to drive a homemade parallel-port EEPROM burner. It works well (although my homemade burner didn't work quite as well ;) ). It is a C thing, but it should be easy to make a D binding for it (just look up accessing C libs from D on the digital mars site or the D wiki). If you have any timing-critical portions, just make sure to either disable the GC and/or avoid any hidden (or non-hidden) allocations during those portions.
