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libnfc With Mac OSX Lion

scott-42 was kind of enough to post some tips on getting libnfc working on a Mac using an FTDI adapter. A couple

simple changes to the code were required (as of v1.6.0-rc1), with the details here (https://adafru.it/aP1).

Keeping in mind the code changes mentionned above, the following steps should get libnfc compiling and working via

an FTDI type adapter and UART on Lion (using libnfc 1.6.0_rc1):

Download and build libnfc and configure if for PN532 UART (making the code changes

above before running make):

If everything worked out, switch to the examples folder and see if you can find the PN532

and wait for an appropriate tag:

wget http://libnfc.googlecode.com/files/libnfc-1.6.0-rc1.tar.gz

tar -xvzf libnfc-1.6.0-rc1.tar.gz

cd libnfc-1.6.0-rc1

./configure --with-drivers=pn532_uart --enable-serial-autoprobe

sudo make

sudo make install

cd examples

Kevins-Mac-mini:examples kevin$ ./nfc-poll

/Users/kevin/libnfc-1.6.0-rc1/examples/.libs/nfc-poll uses libnfc 1.6.0-rc1 (r1326)

NFC reader: pn532_uart:/dev/tty.usbserial-FTE5WWPB - PN532 v1.6 (0x07) opened

NFC device will poll during 30000 ms (20 pollings of 300 ms for 5 modulations)

ISO/IEC 14443A (106 kbps) target:

ATQA (SENS_RES): 00 04

UID (NFCID1): 3e b9 6e 66

SAK (SEL_RES): 08