This is an unofficial fork of another unofficial fork wiringPi of the original wiringPi.
- The last "official" source release can be found at the
final_source_2.50tag. - The last "unofficial" release is more than a year old Version 2.61-1
- Development of the "official" version ended as per this post
- I have updated this fork with few of the pull requests submitted to the unofficial fork. I know C programming and I know how to created RPM, Debian and archlinux packages. But I have zero knowledge of hardware side of things and how wiringpi really works. So I welcome contributions from knowledgeable folks. My contribution would be to have the binary builds updated and synced with the source code. See this commit
- Taking into account the points above, I have made this fork to support my lcd-daemon package which uses wiringPi. The package installs lcdDaemon - a daemon that runs continuously on a Raspberry PI. Any user/program on the network can print to a 16x2, 20x4 LCD using Hitachi HD44780 driver, using the pilcd command. I use the LCD to display songs being played on any of my Raspberry PIs in my house.
- Debian/Ubuntu builds of this fork is available using Open Build Service
- If you find any bugs, that will be because of me. Do not harass the Gorodon for that.
- Last but not the least, A Big Thank You to Gordon Henderson for writing wiringPi. This was the thing that got me hooked to Raspberry PI way back in 2014. I do not know Gordon personally but he got me inspired to use Raspberry PIs for playing Music throughout my house. See my mpdev and pistop projects.
$ cd /usr/local/src
$ git clone --no-tags --no-recurse-submodules --depth=1 https://github.com/mbhangui/wiringPi
$ cd wiringPi
$ ./default.configure
$ make && sudo make install-strip
This is done by running the create_rpm / create_debian scripts. (Here version refers to the existing version of wiringPi package)
To create the RPM package run the create_rpm command
$ pwd
/usr/local/src/wiringPi
$ ./create_rpm
$ ls -l $HOME/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/*wiringpi*
-rw-r--r--. 1 pi pi 42307 Jun 19 17:41 /home/pi/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/libwiringpi-3.0-1.1.fc38.x86_64.rpm
-rw-r--r--. 1 pi pi 83713 Jun 19 17:40 /home/pi/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/libwiringpi-debuginfo-3.0-1.1.fc38.x86_64.rpm
-rw-r--r--. 1 pi pi 25834 Jun 19 17:41 /home/pi/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/libwiringpidev-3.0-1.1.fc38.x86_64.rpm
-rw-r--r--. 1 pi pi 37499 Jun 19 17:40 /home/pi/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/libwiringpidev-debuginfo-3.0-1.1.fc38.x86_64.rpm
-rw-r--r--. 1 pi pi 31361 Jun 19 17:41 /home/pi/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/libwiringpidev-devel-3.0-1.1.fc38.x86_64.rpm
-rw-r--r--. 1 pi pi 62002 Jun 19 17:41 /home/pi/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/libwiringpi-devel-3.0-1.1.fc38.x86_64.rpm
-rw-r--r--. 1 pi pi 36584 Jun 19 17:41 /home/pi/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/wiringpi-3.0-1.1.fc38.x86_64.rpm
-rw-r--r--. 1 pi pi 40876 Jun 19 17:40 /home/pi/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/wiringpi-debuginfo-3.0-1.1.fc38.x86_64.rpm
-rw-r--r--. 1 pi pi 80848 Jun 19 17:40 /home/pi/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/wiringpi-debugsource-3.0-1.1.fc38.x86_64.rpm
To install run the rpm command.
$ sudo rpm -ivh /home/pi/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/wiringpi-3.0-1.1.fc38.x86_64.rpm \
/home/pi/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/libwiringpi-3.0-1.1.fc38.x86_64.rpm \
/home/pi/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/libwiringpidev-3.0-1.1.fc38.x86_64.rpm
If you are going to write/build applications that use the libwiringi
library then you need to install the development headers.
$ sudo rpm -ivh /home/pi/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/libwiringpi-devel-3.0-1.1.fc38.x86_64.rpm \
/home/pi/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/libwiringpidev-devel-3.0-1.1.fc38.x86_64.rpm
To create the debian package run the create_debian command
$ pwd
/usr/local/src/wiringPi
$ ./create_debian
$ ls -l $HOME/stage/*wiring*
total 44
drwxr-xr-x 3 pi pi 4096 Jun 19 18:35 .
drwxr-xr-x 24 pi pi 4096 Jun 19 18:24 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 2272 Jun 19 18:35 libwiringpi_3.0-1.1_arm64.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 2296 Jun 19 18:35 libwiringpi-dev_3.0-1.1_arm64.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 2468 Jun 19 18:35 libwiringpidev_3.0-1.1_arm64.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 2484 Jun 19 18:35 libwiringpidev-dev_3.0-1.1_arm64.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 6059 Jun 19 18:35 wiringpi_3.0-1.1_arm64.buildinfo
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 2552 Jun 19 18:35 wiringpi_3.0-1.1_arm64.changes
-rw-r--r-- 1 pi pi 2344 Jun 19 18:35 wiringpi_3.0-1.1_arm64.deb
To install run the dpkg command.
$ sudo dpkg -i /home/i/stage/wiringpi_3.0-1.1_arm64.deb \
/home/pi/stage/libwiringpi_3.0-1.1_arm64.deb\
/home/pi/stage/libwiringpidev_3.0-1.1_arm64.deb
If you are going to write/build applications that use the libwiringi
library then you need to install the development headers.
$ sudo dpkg -i /home/pi/stage/libwiringpi-dev_3.0-1.1_arm64.deb\
/home/pi/stage/libwiringpidev-dev_3.0-1.1_arm64.deb
Prebuilt binaries using openSUSE Build Service are available for wiringpi for
- Debian 10 (including ARM images for Debian 10 which work (and tested) for RaspberryPI (model 2,3))
- Raspbian 10 and 11 for RaspberryPI (arm and aarch64 images)
- Ubuntu 20, 22, 23 (arm and aarch64 images)
Use the below url for installation
The above instructions will help you add the OBS repo in /etc/apt/sources.list.d for debian systems or /etc/yum.repos.d for rpm based systems. Once you have the repo, you can can install using the apt-get or the yum/dnf command
For debian based systems
$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install wiringpi
For RPM based systems
$ sudo dnf update && sudo dnf install wiringpi
Please do not email Gordon if you have issues, he will not be able to help. Feel free to create an issue on github instead.
I'm also available on matrix where you can leave a message if you have any issue.