evdevpp

This library provides bindings to the generic input event interface in Linux. The evdev interface serves the purpose of passing events generated in the kernel directly to userspace through character devices that are typically located in /dev/input/.

This library also comes with bindings to uinput, the userspace input subsystem. Uinput allows userspace programs to create and handle input devices that can inject events directly into the input subsystem.

Building

This library uses the Bazel build system. As such, to build this library from source, use the following:

$ git clone https://github.com/mikael-s-persson/evdevpp.git
$ cd evdevpp
$ bazel build //...:all

Configurations available include --config=clang (for Clang) and --config=libc++ (for Clang + libc++).

To import this library into your own Bazel project, put the following in your MODULE.bazel:

bazel_dep(name = "evdevpp")
git_override(
    module_name = "evdevpp",
    # Update to desired or latest commit.
    commit = "c32b33ec85d8ad080a1ee756ef2784ae3d06dbfa",
    remote = "https://github.com/mikael-s-persson/evdevpp.git",
)

# Bazel rules should depend on: "@evdevpp"

Reporting issues

This is still a largely untested library. It was ported from python-evdev, which is well-tested, and relying, of course, on libevdev, which has been a staple of the Linux eco-system for long time. Nevertheless, there are bugs in this library, I am sure of it.

Please report any issues at: https://github.com/mikael-s-persson/evdevpp/issues

Documentation

Some useful documentation can be found here:

Linux kernel input subsystem docs: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.12/input/input_uapi.html

Python-evdev library docs: https://python-evdev.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Development

https://github.com/mikael-s-persson/evdevpp