Martin Helmich [email protected]
Oliver Erxleben [email protected]

University of Applied Sciences Osnabrück

André Colomb [email protected]

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This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.

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libcintelhex is a C library for parsing Intel HEX files and mapping their binary contents into application or device memory.

libcintelhex has no requirements besides a halfway recent GCC and a C standard library. Compilation on Windows with MinGW has also reported to be successful, building with Clang is still problematic, though.

When cloning from Git, you will also need autoreconf to generate the build system.

Installation as usual:

autoreconf -i
./configure
make
make install

After installation, include cintelhex.h and add -lcintelhex to your linker flags.

This library can parse Intel HEX data either from an input file or directly from a given string:

ihex_recordset_t* r1 = ihex_rs_from_file("my_filename");

char* input = ":1a01000021A4B2Fe...";
ihex_recordset_t* r2 = ihex_rs_from_string(input);

Intel HEX data can be copied to any region in memory (either somewhere in RAM, but also to mapped memory regions of hardware devices):

void* dst = malloc(8192); // Allocate target region.
int   r   = ihex_mem_copy(rs, dst, 8192,
    IHEX_WIDTH_32BIT, IHEX_ORDER_BIGENDIAN); // Copy data to target region.

if (r == 0) printf("All is well.\n");
else return r;