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Note that when writing text to the MFD, the line length is limited to 16 Note that when writing text to the MFD, the line length is limited to 16
characters. While you can pass a longer string, the library will only consider characters. While you can pass a longer string, the library will only consider
the first 16 characters for writing to the display. the first 16 characters for writing to the display.
# Building the library
Build has been tested on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS on x86_64.
## Prerequisites
You will need the following packages:
* automake
* autoconf
* libusb-1.0-0-dev
## Installation
1. Clone the parent Git repository
2. CD to the libx52 folder and run autogen.sh
3. Run configure; make and sudo make install.
The test program is not installed, there will be a separate command line utility
in the future that utilizes the library and communicates with the joystick.