[libhid-discuss] Windows support?

[Adrian Parker]

So libhid will work with libusb-win32, just as it would with libusb?

I shall try that today.  Thank you.


Adrian



On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 7:52 AM, Albert Lee <trisk+alioth at acm.jhu.edu>
wrote:

> There's more than one libusb implementation; libhid also works on
> Solaris, which has its own libusb, for example.
>
> If you see the libusb home page, it says "Supported operating systems:
> Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Darwin, MacOS X (and Windows through
> the libusb-win32 project)."
>
>
> The only OS specific code that I know of in libhid is the bit that
> requests an existing driver to detach, and afaik all implementations use
> the same libhid-based code right now which is portable.
>
> -Albert
>
> On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 07:33 -0400, Adrian Parker wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I read in the libhid docs, "aims to support all operating system
> supported
> > by libusb: Linux, BSD, OS X, and Windows".
> >
> > This seems to say that libusb supports Windows.  But libusb doesn't seem
> to
> > support Windows (http://libusb.sourceforge.net/doc/intro-support.html).
> >
> > I note that neither libusb or libhid includes the text "windows.h"
> anywhere
> > in their sources, so I suspect this is further indication that neither
> > libhid or libusb supports Windows?
> >
> >
>
>


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