[libhid-discuss] Does libhid require a driver installation on windows?

[Gabriel Rossetti]

Xiaofan Chen wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Gabriel Rossetti
> <gabriel.rossetti at arimaz.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> On 4/11/07, Stephan Meyer wrote:
>>     
>>> / > On 4/10/07, Xiaofan wrote:
>>>       
>> />/ > The thing is that you need to uninstall the kernel HID driver and
>> />/ > use the libusb-win32 device driver for this kind of HID device. This
>> />/ > significantly reduces the usability of libusb-win32 for HID device
>> />/ > under Windows. Yet many USB device disguise them as HID device
>> />/ > just to avoid writing a device driver.
>> />/ >
>> />/ > Just wondering if it is possible to use an alternative backend
>> />/ > (Windows HID apli) and make libusb a wrapper on top of it.
>> />/ > I understand then it should perhaps be called libhid-win32 then.
>> />/
>> />/ This sounds like a great idea! I'll add a native HID backend to the
>> />/ next version of the DLL. It should be possible to implement most of
>> />/ libusb's features on top of Windows' hid.dll such as open, close,
>> />/ interrupt-read/write and basic control messages. The rest can be
>> />/ emulated/simulated.
>> />
>>
>> (http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/libhid-discuss/2007-April/000136.html)
>>
>> I searched both libhid's and libusb's websites and I found nothing
>> concerning this, does anyone know what the current status is? Does a
>> driver have to be installed to use libhid on windows? Also, what is the
>> difference/advantage with using libhid in comparison with directly using
>> libusb's hid support?
>>     
>
> You can try out the SVN version of libsub-win32 1.0. Last time
> I tried it out, it has the HID backend (along with WinUSB backend
> and the libusb-win32 device driver backend). It could find the device,
> but interrupt read/write did not work.
>
> The SVN version:
> http://libusb-win32.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/libusb-win32/trunk/libusb1/
>
> It seems to me that this has not been updated for a while. So I guess
> it is still not working. But Stephan mentioned that he would try to
> finish this with this year.
>
> libhid is right now based on libusb.
>
> Xiaofan
>   
Ok, thank you,

Gabriel