Serial port communication tutorial [closed]

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I'm trying to write a C++ program that reads a stream of data from a measurement device through an RS-232 serial port and translates it into a readable format. I never coded serial port communication before.

Question: Does anyone have a useful, easy to understand link or a tutorial that might help?

Constraints:

• Programming language: C++

• OS: Windows (XP) 32 bit

• Compilers: MinGW (for prototypin开发者_开发技巧g), Eclipse (final version)

This means:

• NO Visual Studio

• NO Borland,

• NO Code Blocks

• NO Blodshed DevC++

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The standard Win32 APIs work with handles to communication ports. (In fact the overlapped APIs even worked on Windows 9x/ME!)

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If you have access to the boost libraries, there are facilities for doing serial port I/O in boost::asio. The documentation can be a bit cumbersome, but when you get down to brass tacks it's pretty straightforward.

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At bbdsoft you can download a good functioning example of a C++ class for using the serial port. Still works great!