How to get motherboard address or processor id / serial number in C or C++?

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I need to fetch the serial number of the motherboard or processor in a C/C++ program.

I need to identify a unique computer for my software so that one license can not be used in multiple computers.

Related: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/90462/cpu-serial-number — halex, Oct 28 '12 at 11:00

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 28 '12 at 11:02

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HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) can give the motherboard serial number on Linux. http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/hal

This is the library behind lshal:

$ lshal | grep 'system\.hardware\.serial'
  system.hardware.serial = '<serial-number>'

answered Oct 28 '12 at 11:02

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