bluetooth

This library abstracts low-level C Bluetooth utilities on each of the Tier 1 GHC platforms, similar to Java's BlueCove and Python's PyBluez. This is currently a work in progress, so do not expect anything to work yet.

Checklist

• Windows x86_64 (Winsock)¹

  • Port the Winsock examples

• OS X (IOBluetooth)²

  • Port each of the OSX Bluetooth examples

• Linux (BlueZ)

  • Wrap all needed C functionality with c2hs
  • Device inquiry
  • RFCOMM server
  • RFCOMM client
  • L2CAP server
  • L2CAP client
  • SDP search
  • Set L2CAP flush timeout

• FreeBSD (netgraph)

Prerequisites

Aside from having a Bluetooth-enabled computer, you must have some software installed before installing the bluetooth package.

Linux

You need to have the BlueZ development libraries installed.

Debian/Ubuntu

apt-get install bluez libbluetooth-dev

Fedora

yum install bluez-libs-devel

Alternatively, you can install from source.

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¹ Many of the Winsock headers (e.g., ws2bth2.h) appear to be available in MinGW-w64 but not MinGW. Although MinGW-w64 supports both 32- and 64-bit Windows, only 64-bit Windows GHC is packaged with MinGW-w64 at the moment, so the bluetooth package does not support 32-bit Windows.

² I do not own a Mac, so I am unable to test OS X at the moment.