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I'm currently working on a ZigBee project and I'm programming on an Mac with Mountain Lion (10.8) and using Eclipse IDE. To use my Zigbee Module via USB for Serial communication, I need this rxtxSerial.dll. I only have a Windows compatible version right now.

Is somebody able to provide the necessary link to me?

Thank you!

tellob
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With all the latest updates as of 2012-11-15 (OSX 10.8.2) i needed to install glibtool via homebrew (http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/) before I got the procedure below to work.

With homebrew installed and configured just do 

brew install libtool

from a terminal. Then proceed as described below.

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So, I managed to compile it for my self on OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2) and XCode (free from App Store).

Download rxtx-2.2pre2.zip and extract. Edit the "configure" file in the extracted directory and change the line that reads:

JAVAINCLUDEDIR=$JPATH/../../../Headers

to

JAVAINCLUDEDIR=/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/A/Headers

Then configure by doing

./configure

using a terminal in your working directory.

Now you will have a file named "Makefile" in your working directory, you need to edit the line in this file that reads:

LIBTOOLC = $(GLIBTOOL) --mode=compile $(CC) $(INCLUDES) $(CPPFLAGS) $(CFLAGS) $(VERBOSE_IOEXCEPTIONS) -c

to

LIBTOOLC = $(GLIBTOOL) --tag=CC --mode=compile $(CC) $(INCLUDES) $(CPPFLAGS) $(CFLAGS) $(VERBOSE_IOEXCEPTIONS) -c

And then run

make

You will now have RXTXcomm.jar in your working directory and librxtxSerial.jnilib in workingdirectory/i386-apple-darwin12.2.0

These are the files you need.

To work with them you may need to do

sudo mkdir /var/lock

sudo chmod 777 /var/lock

This approach worked for me.

PS. If you trust me you can get these files from here and here.

PPS. You may get:

WARNING: RXTX Version mismatch Jar version = RXTX-2.2-20081207 Cloudhopper Build rxtx.cloudhopper.net native lib Version = RXTX-2.2pre2

But it should still work.

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I am also trying to use rxtx on ML and while I have not have any success yet I did find this link. Java 6 and librxtxSerial.jnilib on Intel Mac OS X And even though it says nothing about ML, one of the comments states that it works with Lion if you tweak it a little bit.

I'll report back if I get it to work here.

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  • when doing make i get an error: i686-apple-darwin12.2.0/SerialImp.o & i686-apple-darwin12.2.0/fuserImp.o' no such file or directory? any ideas? – Thomas Nov 12 '12 at 14:08
  • If you have Homebrew installed you can do "brew install libtool" then follow the guide above. This worked for me with all the latest updates from Apple. And without "brew install libtool" I now get the same error as you do. – evading Nov 15 '12 at 13:58
  • you might have to link glibtool to make this work "brew link libtool" – HeikoG Jul 24 '13 at 19:17
  • Worked for me on Mavericks. Thank you! – spinningarrow Jan 07 '14 at 14:18
  • This worked for me on Mojave, my JAVAINCLUDE was different because of the different version of MacOS.. and I ended up moving all of the header files to the root of the source anyhow to just end the madness, the compiler kept looking for them in the source root anyhow. It may be noted that my end goal was to just have RXTXcomm.jar and librxtxSerial.jnilib (and put them in /Library/Java/Extensions/ ) to run another project.. a repeatable process was not really my goal here. – rhaag71 Feb 19 '19 at 15:07