Ticket #32 (new enhancement)
Make libusb-compat-0.1 easier to build for Windows
| Reported by: | xiaofan | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | libusb-compat-0.1 | Keywords: | Windows, libusb-compat |
| Cc: | Blocked By: | ||
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Description
Right now it is difficult to build libusb-compat-0.1 under Windows. It would be great to provide the right configure scripts for MinGW/Cygwin and Visual C++ projects files. By doing this, libusb 1.0 Windows backends may appeal to more users and this will help the testing of libusb 1.0 Windows backends (WinUSB and HID currently).
Reference thread:
http://old.nabble.com/libusb-compat-for-the-libusb-1.0-Windows-backend-td27292398.html
Change History
comment:1 Changed 17 months ago by stuge
- Summary changed from To make libusb-compat-0.1 easier to be built under Windows to Make libusb-compat-0.1 easier to build for Windows
comment:2 Changed 16 months ago by dsd
It looks like most of your difficulties stem from the fact that you don't have pkg-config installed. I'd imagine its pretty to install that in cygwin/mingw environments.
comment:3 Changed 16 months ago by pbatard
No precompiled packages of pkg-config currently exist for MinGW (AFAIK), so that means installation would have to be from source.
comment:4 Changed 16 months ago by stuge
pkg-config for Windows can be downloaded from http://www.gtk.org/download-windows.html under "Other third party software". Here's the direct download link:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/binaries/win32/dependencies/pkg-config_0.23-3_win32.zip
comment:5 Changed 16 months ago by xiaofan
Looking at this now, I do not think it is worth the time to extend libusb-compat-0.1 to support libusb-win32 API which is a superset of libusb-0.1 API. It is better to ask the user of libusb-win32 to switch to libusb-1.0 API. This is especially true now that Peter seems to work to have libusb0.sys integration before 1.09 release.
