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Wiring pi is defunct.

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SensoredHacker0 over 1 year ago

I used to love using the Wiring Pi library in C for programing the IO of the Raspberry pi.
I haven't used a PI for a project in a while, and I guess in that time developer of WiringPi has
stopped supporting the library.
I tried using version 2.52 on a raspberry pi 4, but it says something like the hardware isn't listed in /proc/cpuinfo.

So I guess I cant use wiringPi. what C libraries would you use for programing GPIO in C on a rasperry Pi 4?
Ive looked around the internet, and I see some various options, but Im not sure what code works with which boards, etc.

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    0 dougw over 1 year ago

    You could try the Pi 4B update for wiringPi:

    http://wiringpi.com/wiringpi-updated-to-2-52-for-the-raspberry-pi-4b

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    0 JWx over 1 year ago in reply to dougw

    This is strange - OP is using 2.52 which should be compatible with Pi 4 according to the above link...

    Official documentation seems outdated - repository url from http://wiringpi.com/download-and-install/ is dead.

    I have found unofficial fork on github with an issue describing effort to maintain it:

    https://github.com/WiringPi/WiringPi/issues/80

    and links to some packages with greater version numbers (eg. 2.61) - maybe working better, maybe not - users should decide by themselves if they want to try an unofficial fork.

    The libgpio is mentioned there - but in negative context (as a reason to have wiringpi maintained)

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    0 JWx over 1 year ago in reply to dougw

    This is strange - OP is using 2.52 which should be compatible with Pi 4 according to the above link...

    Official documentation seems outdated - repository url from http://wiringpi.com/download-and-install/ is dead.

    I have found unofficial fork on github with an issue describing effort to maintain it:

    https://github.com/WiringPi/WiringPi/issues/80

    and links to some packages with greater version numbers (eg. 2.61) - maybe working better, maybe not - users should decide by themselves if they want to try an unofficial fork.

    The libgpio is mentioned there - but in negative context (as a reason to have wiringpi maintained)

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