[libhid-discuss] libhid on windows?

[Xiaofan Chen]

On 8/16/07, Charles Lepple <clepple at ghz.cc> wrote:
> Mike Zhu wrote:
> > The professor I'm working for wants to get his usb device driver to work
> > on windows.  His code was written in linux using libhid. On your web page,
> > it says that libhid should work on windows, but I've checked online, and I
> > don't see how to do it.  I'm using the gcc compiler on cygwin.  When i try
> > to configure and compile libhid on cygwin, it says that libhid is
> > currently not supported on cygwin-i686-pc .  I was wondering if there was
> > some way to get libhid onto windows without using cygwin.
>
> You could try MinGW32. I don't know if the code was ever finished to make
> libhid work on Windows. You would need libusb-win32 as well.
>


Some people have ported libhid to Windows with libusb-win32 and
Visual C++. I will give this a test.

If you want to have access to the ported code, maybe you can
subscribe to the libusb-win32 mailing list and request the code
from the author (Robert Krakora).

Regards,

Xiaofan