BlueZ - Bluetooth protocol stack for Linux ****************************************** Copyright (C) 2000-2001 Qualcomm Incorporated Copyright (C) 2002-2003 Maxim Krasnyansky Copyright (C) 2002-2010 Marcel Holtmann Compilation and installation ============================ In order to compile Bluetooth utilities you need following software packages: - GCC compiler - GLib library - D-Bus library - USB library (optional) - udev library (optional) - readline (command line clients) To configure run: ./configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man \ --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var Configure automatically searches for all required components and packages. To compile and install run: make && make install Configuration and options ========================= For a working system, certain configuration options need to be enabled: --enable-library Enable installation of Bluetooth library By default the Bluetooth library is no longer installed. The user interfaces or command line utilities do not require an installed Bluetooth library anymore. This option is provided for legacy third party applications that still depend on the library. When the library installation is enabled, it is a good idea to use a separate bluez-library or libbluetooth package for it. --disable-tools Disable support for Bluetooth utilities By default the Bluetooth utilities are built and also installed. For production systems the tools are not needed and this option allows to disable them to save build time and disk space. When the tools are selected, it is a good idea to use a separate bluez-tools package for them. --disable-cups Disable support for CUPS printer backend By default the printer backend for CUPS is build and also installed. For systems that do not require printing over Bluetooth, this options allows to disable it. When the CUPS backend is selected, it is a good idea to use a separate bluez-cups package for it. --disable-monitor Disable support for the Bluetooth monitor utility By default the monitor utility is enabled. It provides support for HCI level tracing and debugging. For systems that don't require any kind of tracing or debugging capabilities, this options allows to disable it. The monitor utility should be place in the main package along with the daemons. It is universally useful. --disable-client Disable support for the command line client By default the command line client is enabled and uses the readline library. For specific systems where BlueZ is configured by other means, the command line client can be disabled and the dependency on readline is removed. The client should be placed in the main package along with the daemons. It is universally useful. --disable-systemd Disable integration with systemd By default the integration with systemd is enabled and installed. This gives the best integration into all distributions based on systemd. This option is provided for distributions that do not support systemd. In that case all integration with the init system is up to the package. --enable-experimental Enable experimental plugins By default all plugins that are still in development are disabled. This option can be used to enable them. It is not recommended to enable this option for production systems. The APIs or behavior of the experimental plugins is unstable and might still change. Information =========== Mailing lists: linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org For additional information about the project visit BlueZ web site: http://www.bluez.org