Tutorial: Interrupt-Driven Event-Counter on the Raspberry Pi

--D. Thiebaut (talk) 19:57, 23 July 2013 (EDT)

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This page is under construction. Its purpose is to illustrate how to implement a user-level interrupt in C on a Raspberry Pi to count events.

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Getting the Environment Ready

Get the WiringPi Library

• Get the WiringPi library from drogon.net
• Follow the directions on the Web site to download to the Pi. In my case the Pi is connected to my Mac through an ethernet cable, so I downloaded the tgz archive from https://git.drogon.net/?p=wiringPi;a=summary and sftp it over to the pi. I renamed the actual library to wiring.tgz, which is easier to type than its actual name.

sftp pi@169.254.0.2
sftp> pwd 
Remote working directory: /home/pi
sftp> put wiring.tgz
Uploading wiring.tgz to /home/pi/wiring.tgz
wiring.tgz                                                                            100%  108KB 107.8KB/s   00:00    
sftp> quit

• Connect to the RPI and build the library

 tar -xzvf wiring.tgz 
 cd wiringPi-cbf6d64/
 ./build 
wiringPi Build script
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WiringPi Library
make: Warning: File `Makefile' has modification time 1.4e+07 s in the future
[UnInstall]
[Compile] wiringPi.c
[Compile] wiringSerial.c
...
[Compile] drc.c
[Link (Dynamic)]
[Install Headers]
[Install Dynamic Lib] 
make: warning:  Clock skew detected.  Your build may be incomplete.

WiringPi Devices Library
make: Warning: File `Makefile' has modification time 1.4e+07 s in the future
[UnInstall]
[Compile] ds1302.c
...
[Link (Dynamic)]
[Install Headers]
[Install Dynamic Lib] 
make: warning:  Clock skew detected.  Your build may be incomplete.

GPIO Utility
make: Warning: File `Makefile' has modification time 1.4e+07 s in the future
[Compile] gpio.c
[Compile] extensions.c
[Compile] readall.c
[Link] 
make: warning:  Clock skew detected.  Your build may be incomplete.
make: Warning: File `Makefile' has modification time 1.4e+07 s in the future
[Install]
make: warning:  Clock skew detected.  Your build may be incomplete.

All Done.

NOTE: This is wiringPi v2, and if you need to use the lcd, Piface,
  Gertboard, MaxDetext, etc. routines then you must change your
  compile scripts to add -lwiringPiDev