From: Dave Burt <dave@...>
Date: 2006-04-20T23:56:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Win32 Serial Communications, maybe using mscomm.ocx

Eli Bendersky wrote:
 > I have to deal with the serial port quite a lot at work, and I've
> developed a set of C++ and Perl tools for that. I found controlling the 
> serial port via Perl extremely difficult, and ending up coding a socket 
> <-> serial port bridge in C++ using the excellent CSerial class, 
> downloadable from http://home.ict.nl/~ramklein/Projects/Serial.html
> 
> What I now have is a tiny C++ exe (< 100 Kb) that I call from a script 
> and it communicates via a socket, transmitting both ways, acting as a 
> gateway.
> 
> Perhaps it would be even better to tie it to a .dll

Why not use Win32API?

This article demonstrates use of the Windows API in C++, but it's easily
translated to Ruby from there.

Cheers,
Dave