[libhid-discuss] OS X build

[Charles Lepple]

On Jan 14, 2015, at 6:18 AM, Edgar Fuß <ef at math.uni-bonn.de> wrote:

> Thanks for your quick reply.
> 
>> To be honest, it should be using the output of `libusb-config --libs` 
>> instead (which implicitly addresses both of those points).
> Yes, probably.
> 
>> But once you do that, you are still fighting the OS X USB HID drivers. [...]
>> You may want to check out the HIDAPI project instead [...]
> Well, to be honest, I just wanted avrdude from pkgsrc to build. It has a dependency on libhid which I needed to satisfy somehow. My AVR programmer is connected via a USB-RS232 dongle, not as a HID device, so I in fact don't really care whether the libhid I built actually works.

Hi Edgar,

I was just looking at the avrdude source code, and it seems like their check for libhid is only for the Windows hid.lib (with "HidD_" prefix on the symbols):

http://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/viewvc/trunk/avrdude/configure.ac?revision=1350&root=avrdude&view=markup

You may want to check and see if your version is actually linking against the other libhid (with "hid_" symbol prefixes), and if not, let the pkgsrc people know.

- Charles