[sane-devel] CanoScan LiDE 25 not found on Win XP

[Gerhard Jaeger]

On Friday 24 November 2006 12:50, Guy Yitzhaki wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to get my CanoScan LiDE 25 to work with the sane library on
> Windows XP, using Cygwin.
> 
> When I run sane-find-scanner it detects the scanner correctly (I think) -
> this is the output:
> 
> *found 4 busses
> found USB scanner (vendor=0x1690 [GlobeSpan Inc.], product=0x0211 [USB-ADSL
> Modem]) at libusb:bus-1:\\.\libusb0-0005--0x1690-0x0211
> found USB scanner (vendor=0x04a9 [Canon], product=0x2220 [CanoScan]) at
> libusb:bus-1:\\.\libusb0-0006--0x04a9-0x2220 *
> 
> 
> But when I try running scanimage -L (with SANE_DEBUG_DLL=7) it does not find
> the scanner. It seems as though it cannot find the backends at all. Here is
> the output:
> 
> *[sanei_debug] Setting debug level of dll to 7.
> [dll] sane_init: SANE dll backend version 1.0.12 from sane-backends 1.0.18
> [dll] sane_init: reading dll.conf
[SNIPSNAP]
> [dll] add_backend: adding backend `plustek'
[SNIPSNAP]
> [dll] load: searching backend `plustek' in `/usr/local/lib/sane'
> [dll] load: trying to load `/usr/local/lib/sane/cygsane- plustek-1.dll'
> [dll] load: couldn't open `/usr/local/lib/sane/cygsane-plustek-1.dll' (No such file or directory)
> [dll] load: couldn't find backend `plustek' (No such file or directory)
[SNIPSNAP]

- Get rid of the other backends by commenting them out in dll.conf
- Fix the path issues within your Cygwin environment - don't know how,
  but all your dlls couldn't be found...

Gerhard