Installing gammu on Mac OS X

This mini tutorial will explain howto install gammu on Mac OS X, i’m using Mac OS X 10.5.8 and gammu 1.28.0.
To install gammu, you need cmake, and i’m using cmake 2.8.2, i installed it using Homebrew package manager.

To install Homebrew:

$ ruby -e "$(curl -fsS http://gist.github.com/raw/323731/install_homebrew.rb)"

Then, you can install cmake with:

$ brew install cmake

Download gammu 1.28.0 here

Next, extract and install it:

$ ./configure

$ make

If you got errors like this:

Scanning dependencies of target array-test
[ 35%] Building C object tests/CMakeFiles/array-test.dir/array-test.o
Linking C executable array-test
[ 35%] Built target array-test
Scanning dependencies of target at-charset
[ 35%] Building C object tests/CMakeFiles/at-charset.dir/at-charset.o
Linking C executable at-charset
Undefined symbols:
“_iconv_open”, referenced from:
_IconvDecode in libGammu.a(coding.o)
_IconvEncode in libGammu.a(coding.o)
“_iconv_close”, referenced from:
_IconvDecode in libGammu.a(coding.o)
_IconvEncode in libGammu.a(coding.o)
“_iconv”, referenced from:
_IconvDecode in libGammu.a(coding.o)
_IconvEncode in libGammu.a(coding.o)
ld: symbol(s) not found
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[3]: *** [tests/at-charset] Error 1
make[2]: *** [tests/CMakeFiles/at-charset.dir/all] Error 2
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2

Then you’ve to configure cmake build to disable libiconv

$ mkdir build

$ cd build

$ cmake -DWITH_Iconv=OFF ..

$ make

$ sudo make install

Now, let’s connect the modem, i’m using Sierra USB Connect 881, and i got this information on /var/log/system.log:

Jul 16 22:34:10 macbooks-macbook kernel[0]: SierraSwitch: Version number – 1.2.1
Jul 16 22:34:10 macbooks-macbook kernel[0]: SierraSwitch: Driver Mode is 2 (Force Modem)
Jul 16 22:34:10 macbooks-macbook kernel[0]: SierraSwitch: Device version information for Mac OS:
Jul 16 22:34:10 macbooks-macbook kernel[0]: SierraSwitch: Revision = 0, SIPC = 24577(6001), SI Version = 1(1), CDPC = 0, CD Version = 0.0.0
Jul 16 22:34:10 macbooks-macbook kernel[0]: USBF:    41970.457    IOUSBInterface[0x418a700]::joinPMtree – could not find the hub device
Jul 16 22:34:13 macbooks-macbook kernel[0]: 0        0 SierraSupport: start – Default, suspend enabled for this device
Jul 16 22:34:13 macbooks-macbook kernel[0]: SierraSupport: Version number – 1.4.7, Input buffers 16, Output buffers 24

Unfortunately, it does not show where the modem attached on /dev/, because we need it to gammu configuration. So, i search it manually:

$ ls -la /dev | grep sierra

And it shows:

crw-rw-rw-   1 root   wheel      17,   9 Jul 16 22:34 cu.sierra001
crw-rw-rw-   1 root   wheel      17,  13 Jul 16 22:34 cu.sierra05
crw-rw-rw-   1 root   wheel      17,  11 Jul 16 22:34 cu.sierracntl
crw-rw-rw-   1 root   wheel      17,   8 Jul 16 22:34 tty.sierra001
crw-rw-rw-   1 root   wheel      17,  12 Jul 17 01:04 tty.sierra05
crw-rw-rw-   1 root   wheel      17,  10 Jul 17 01:04 tty.sierracntl

Now, let’s create gammu config:

$ cp /usr/local/share/doc/gammu/examples/config/gammurc ~/.gammurc

Mine is something like this:

[gammu]
device = /dev/tty.sierra05
connection = at115200

Finally, test the connection:

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Add MySQL support

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For example, i’ve smsdrc (gammu-smsd config file) like this:

[gammu]
device = /dev/tty.sierra05
connection = at115200

[smsd]
service = MYSQL
PIN = 1234
logfile = /Users/White/.smsdlog
debuglevel = 255

Then i run gammu-smsd and it throws error:

macbooks-macbook:~ White$ gammu-smsd -c /Users/White/.smsdrc
Log filename is “/Users/White/.smsdlog”
gammu-smsd[97218]: MYSQL service was not compiled in!
gammu-smsd[97218]: Failed to setup SMSD service: Desired functionality has been disabled on compile time. (DISABLED[62])
Failed to run SMSD: Desired functionality has been disabled on compile time.
gammu-smsd[97218]: MYSQL service was not compiled in!

It’s because gammu can’t find mysql header library when you compile it.

To add MySQL support to gammu-smsd you need mysql installed, for example i use xampp for Mac OS X, and i’m using 1.7.3 version. All you need to do is download and install the XAMPP itself and the Developer package, cause it contains the header library we need.

.

Now, let’s compile gammu with mysql support, extract gammu as usual, edit cmake/FindMySQL.cmake, add your XAMPP mysql path, it should be look like this:

find_program(MYSQL_CONFIG mysql_config
${MYSQL_CONFIG_PREFER_PATH}
/usr/local/mysql/bin/
/usr/local/bin/
/usr/bin/
/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/bin/
)

Then, let’s configure cmake:

$ mkdir build

$ cd build

$ cmake -DMYSQL_LIBRARIES=/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient_r.dylib ..

If everything OK, then it should be show something like this one:

– Configuring Gammu 1.28.0
– Could NOT find Doxygen  (missing:  DOXYGEN_EXECUTABLE)
– Using mysql-config: /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/bin/mysql_config
– Found MySQL: /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/include/mysql, /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient_r.dylib
– Could not find PostgreSQL

Then make and make install:

$ make

$ sudo make install

Finally, run gammu-smsd again, if it doesn’t throw errors, then you’ve succeded, congrats

Have fun with gammu and gammu-smsd