Re: Fwd: How to get GPS NMEA in C from ModemManager?

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Tue, 2016-06-07 at 16:10 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Tue, 2016-06-07 at 13:40 -0700, serena dadak wrote:
> > hello there
> >
> > Is there any sample code to get NMEA strings from MM in C?
> > I looked at the example codes in NM but didn't have much luck on
> > finding
> > samples for GPS.
>
> You'd use the libdbus C bindings or (easier) glib-based ones with
> GDBus.  For example, raw libdbus looks like this:
>
> http://maemo.org/development/training/maemo_platform_development_cont
> ent/plain_html/node10/
>
> and it isn't exactly pretty.  Using a binding, whether that's dbus-
> glib, dbus-qt, GDBus, or something else is usually a lot easier.

Or use geoclue, and get all that for free:
https://www.freedesktop.org/software/geoclue/docs/libgeoclue/GClueSimple.html

Cheers