fw_update
====================

The Diolan USB BootLoader is a simple way to update firmware
in PIC18F4455 family microcontrollers without programmers such as ICD2.

fw_update is PC side counterpart of BootLoader.

Visit http://www.diolan.com for more information.

Requirements:
  libusb http://libusb.sourceforge.net/

Installation
  See INSTALL for detail.

License
  GNU/LGPL and GNU/GPL. See COPYING and COPYING.LIB for detail.

  Generic installation instructions
=====================================

- Install libusb
Check your current installation. Most Linux distributives already have
libusb installed. Use your distributive specific tools
to check whether libusb package is installed.

To install libusb from source visit the official libusb web site:
http://libusb.sourceforge.net/.
Download latest libusb release (libusb-x.y.z.tar.gz file),
compile it and install (see example bellow).

Example:
% tar -zxvf libusb-x.y.z.tar.gz
% cd libusb-x.y.z
% ./configure
% make
% make install

Note the last command may require user to have root rights.

By default libusb is installed into /usr/local directory.
For additional details see INSTALL file and configure --help.

- Build fw_update

% tar -zxvf fw_update-x.y.z.tar.gz
% cd fw_update-x.y.z
% ./configure
% make 
% make install

Note the last command may require user to have root rights.

By default the fw_update program is installed into /usr/local/bin.

Use configure --prefix option to override the default.
For more details see INSTALL file and configure --help.

In case libusb installation directory differs from /usr/local, you
can specify the path to libusb installation directory using
% configure --with-usb=/path/to/libusb/dir
or using
% configure --with-usb-lib=/path/to/directory/contains/libusb/libraries
% configure --with-usb-includes=/path/to/directory/contains/libusb/includes