libfap is a quick and dirty C port of the Ham::APRS::FAP Finnish APRS Parser (Fabulous APRS Parser) Perl module. As the original Perl code, libfap parses normal, mic-e and compressed location packets, NMEA location packets, objects, items, messages, telemetry and most weather packets. For more description, see the Perl module.
Aaand there was a bug. A crash caused by null pointer accident in telemetry parsing. Fixed in 1.5, go get it.
We're back!
A new release of libfap is out. See the changelog for details.
Source code and also binary packages for some GNU/Linux distributions can be downloaded from the downloads directory.
Debian and Ubuntu users can use the provided binary packages. Just download the packages you need and say dpkg -i libfap*.deb.
Users of RPM-based distributions should look here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=669010
Building libfap should work like this:
tar xvzf libfap-<version>.tar.gz cd libfap-<version> ./configure [--prefix=/opt or other options] make make install
To see how to use the parser in your C/C++ code, see the API documentation.
If you use automake and things in your project, you can check for libfap for example like this:
dnl Check for libfap. AC_CHECK_HEADERS(fap.h, , AC_MSG_ERROR([libfap header not found.]),[[#include <fap.h>]]) AC_CHECK_LIB(fap, fap_parseaprs, , AC_MSG_ERROR([libfap library object not found.]))
The parser has been originally written by Tapio Sokura, OH2KKU and Heikki Hannikainen, OH7LZB and ported to C by Tapio Aaltonen, OH2GVE.
Libfap is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of either:
Both licenses can be found in the licenses directory of the source code package.
This software has no warranty, you use it entirely at your own risk. If you spot a bug in libfap, please report it to OH2GVE. Thanks!