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+Nanopb - Protocol Buffers for Embedded Systems
+==============================================
+
+[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/nanopb/nanopb.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/nanopb/nanopb)
+
+Nanopb is a small code-size Protocol Buffers implementation in ansi C. It is
+especially suitable for use in microcontrollers, but fits any memory
+restricted system.
+
+* **Homepage:** http://kapsi.fi/~jpa/nanopb/
+* **Downloads:** http://koti.kapsi.fi/~jpa/nanopb/download/
+* **Forum:** https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/nanopb
+
+
+
+Using the nanopb library
+------------------------
+To use the nanopb library, you need to do two things:
+
+1) Compile your .proto files for nanopb, using protoc.
+2) Include pb_encode.c and pb_decode.c in your project.
+
+The easiest way to get started is to study the project in "examples/simple".
+It contains a Makefile, which should work directly under most Linux systems.
+However, for any other kind of build system, see the manual steps in
+README.txt in that folder.
+
+
+
+Using the Protocol Buffers compiler (protoc)
+--------------------------------------------
+The nanopb generator is implemented as a plugin for the Google's own protoc
+compiler. This has the advantage that there is no need to reimplement the
+basic parsing of .proto files. However, it does mean that you need the
+Google's protobuf library in order to run the generator.
+
+If you have downloaded a binary package for nanopb (either Windows, Linux or
+Mac OS X version), the 'protoc' binary is included in the 'generator-bin'
+folder. In this case, you are ready to go. Simply run this command:
+
+    generator-bin/protoc --nanopb_out=. myprotocol.proto
+
+However, if you are using a git checkout or a plain source distribution, you
+need to provide your own version of protoc and the Google's protobuf library.
+On Linux, the necessary packages are protobuf-compiler and python-protobuf.
+On Windows, you can either build Google's protobuf library from source or use
+one of the binary distributions of it. In either case, if you use a separate
+protoc, you need to manually give the path to nanopb generator:
+
+    protoc --plugin=protoc-gen-nanopb=nanopb/generator/protoc-gen-nanopb ...
+
+
+
+Running the tests
+-----------------
+If you want to perform further development of the nanopb core, or to verify
+its functionality using your compiler and platform, you'll want to run the
+test suite. The build rules for the test suite are implemented using Scons,
+so you need to have that installed. To run the tests:
+
+    cd tests
+    scons
+
+This will show the progress of various test cases. If the output does not
+end in an error, the test cases were successful.
+
+Note: Mac OS X by default aliases 'clang' as 'gcc', while not actually
+supporting the same command line options as gcc does. To run tests on
+Mac OS X, use: "scons CC=clang CXX=clang". Same way can be used to run
+tests with different compilers on any platform.