This library can be used to access the serial ports on POSIX systems. You will need a recent g++ release (anything after gcc-3.2 should work) to compile libserial.
If you get the source from github, you need to generate the configure script first:
make -f Makefile.dist
You can skip this step if you are using a release package (which already contains the configure script). Once you have the configure script, run the following commands:
./configure
make
make installComplete documentation is available here.