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Libraries
Two important libraries are used in programming with Raspberry Pi, and they are wiringPi and RPi.GPIO. The Raspberry Pi OS installs them by default, so you can use them directly.
RPi.GPIO
If you are a Python user, you can program GPIOs with API provided by RPi.GPIO.
RPi.GPIO is a module to control Raspberry Pi GPIO channels. This package provides a class to control the GPIO on a Raspberry Pi. For examples and documents, visit: http://sourceforge.net/p/raspberry-gpio-python/wiki/Home/.
Test whether RPi.GPIO is installed or not, type in python:
python
In Python CLI, input "import RPi.GPIO", If no error prompts, it means RPi.GPIO is installed.
import RPi.GPIO
If you want to quit python CLI, type in:
exit()
Install and Check the WiringPi
wiringPi
is a C language GPIO library applied to the Raspberry Pi. It complies with GUN Lv3. The functions in wiringPi are
similar to those in the wiring system of Arduino. They enable the users
familiar with Arduino to use wiringPi more easily.
wiringPi
includes lots of GPIO commands which enable you to control all
kinds of interfaces on Raspberry Pi.
Please run the following command to install wiringPi
library.
sudo apt-get update
git clone https://github.com/WiringPi/WiringPi
cd WiringPi
./build
You can test whether the wiringPi library is installed successfully or not by the following instruction.
gpio -v
Check the GPIO with the following command:
gpio readall
For more details about wiringPi, you can refer to WiringPi.