libsmbios provides a library to interface with the SMBIOS tables. It also provides extensions for proprietary methods of interfacing with Dell specific SMBIOS tables.

To build a libsmbios tarball, you will need the following dependencies, in whichever -devel package convention in use by your distribution:

1. libxml

When building from a git-checkout, you will need the following additional dependencies

1. autoconf
2. automake
3. gettext
4. libtool

libmsbios is a standard autotools package. Build it like any autotools package:

$ ./configure
  $ make

To build from a git checkout:

  $ ./autogen.sh     # autogen.sh internally runs configure automatically
  $ make

RECOMMENDED Out of tree build. To build in a separate dir, leaving a clean source tree:

  $ mkdir _build
  $ ../configure
  $ make

To Install:

Standard autotools package:

$ make install

Documentation is in doxygen format. To view the docs, run "make doxygen", then look in the out/libsmbios_c/html/index.html. Docs are also built as part of "make all".

This software is dual-licensed under GPL/OSL.

• Copyright (C) 2005-2016 Dell Inc.

• by Michael Brown Michael_E_Brown@dell.com

• Licensed under the Open Software License version 2.1

• Alternatively, you can redistribute it and/or modify

• it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published

• by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License,

• or (at your option) any later version.

• This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but

• WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of

• MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

• See the GNU General Public License for more details.