libcpuid provides CPU identification for the x86 (and x86_64). For details about the programming API, please see the docs on the project's site (http://libcpuid.sourceforge.net/)
Under linux, where you download the sources, there's no configure script to run. This is because it isn't a good practice to keep such scripts in a source control system. To create it, you need to run the following commands once, after you checkout the libcpuid sources from github:
1. run "libtoolize"
2. run "autoreconf --install"
You need to have autoconf, automake and libtool installed.
After that you can run ./configure and make - this will build
the library.
make dist will create a tarball (with "configure" inside) with the
sources.
So far, I'm aware of the following projects which utilize libcpuid:
- CPU-X (https://github.com/X0rg/CPU-X)
- fre:ac (https://www.freac.org/)
- ucbench (http://anrieff.net/ucbench)
We'd love to hear from you if you are also using libcpuid and want your project listed above.