libsmbios provides a library to interface with the SMBIOS tables. It also provides extensions for proprietary methods of interfacing with Dell specific SMBIOS tables.

To build a libsmbios tarball, you will need the following dependencies, in whichever -devel package convention in use by your distribution:

1. libxml
2. autoconf
3. automake
4. gettext
5. libtool

To build from a git checkout:

  $ ./autogen.sh     # autogen.sh internally runs configure automatically
  $ make

To Install

Standard autotools package:

$ make install

Documentation is in doxygen format. To view the docs, run make doxygen, then look in the out/libsmbios_c/html/index.html. Docs are also built as part of make all.

Packages can be generated for RPM based distributions by using the helper script

# pkg/mk-rel-rpm.sh

Packages can be generated for DEB based distributions by using the helper script

# pkg/mk-rel-deb.sh

This software is dual-licensed under GPL/OSL.

See GPL License and OSL License for more details.