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Disclaimer

This project was not initiated by me! The original sources are from http://www.hdsdr.de/hardware.html. I just uploaded it on GitHub and added a script to build and modify the DLL on Linux.

If you are (or know) the original developer, please let me know, so i can give kudos to him!

What's this?

an ExtIO DLL for HDSDR (http://hdsdr.de/) and other WinRad derivatives allowing control of many Ham radio receivers, which are supported by Hamlib.

License?

LGPL

Warranty?

Like explained in Lesser GPL you get no warranty at all. We are not responsible for anything, even if you damage your hardware.

Howto install?

download hamlib-win32-1.2.14.zip or later from http://sourceforge.net/projects/hamlib/files/hamlib/ and unpack it

try controlling your rig with "rigctl.exe" from command line read FAQ / documentation on http://hamlib.org

copy the files in hamlib-win32-1.2.14/bin/ into your HDSDR directory

copy ExtIO_HamLib.dll and ExtIO_HamLib.cfg into your HDSDR directory

open ExtIO_HamLib.cfg with an editor and enter your rig settings lines beginning directly with a '#' are comments. take care not to use create empty lines! for testing switch on logging.

you're ready to run HDSDR lot's of luck!

Howto compile with Visual C++ 2008 Express Edition:

C/C++:

General / Additional Include Directories: add "<..>\hamlib-win32-1.2.14\include"

Preprocessor Defines: add "EXTIO_HAMLIB_EXPORTS;_CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS"

Code Generation: activate Stringpooling (/GF)

Precompiled Headers: deactivate them

Linker:

Incremental Linking: deactivate (/INCREMENTAL:NO)

Additional Library Paths: add "<..>\hamlib-win32-1.2.14\lib\msvc"

Input / Additional Dependencies: add "libhamlib-2.lib"

Input / Module definitions: add "ExtIO_HamLib.def"

Howto compile on Linux

get mingw32

apt install g++-mingw-w64-i686-win32

Get Hamlib Package for Windows from https://hamlib.github.io/. Extract it and adapt path in build.sh

Run build.sh.

Use HDSDR on Linux with rigctld

See instructions "howto install?" above.

In ExtIO_HamLib.cfg use 127.0.0.1:4532 instead of comX.

Run rigctld as you would normally do. Like (for KX3):

rigctld -m 229 -r /dev/ttyUSB0

Run HDSDR!

In case of problems ExtIO_HamLib.log should contain some information.

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