References

Serial programming

• Serial Programming Guide for POSIX Operating Systems
• Microsoft MSDN, Serial Communications in Win32

Other implementations

Here you'll find a list of libraries and programs providing their own implementation for communcating using the serial port.

POSIX only

• Frederick Ross with his serial package: haskell-serial

Multiple platforms

• Python serial library python-pyserial
• Ruby serial port library ruby-serialport
• C++ libraries
  • Common cpp: Common C++
  • Boost asio serial: Boost asio
  • QextSerialPort: qextserialport
  • QSerialDevice: qserialdevice
• C implementations:
  • avrdude
• Java
  • rxtx