[sane-devel] USB problems with SANE on MacOS

[Umberto Cerrato]

Hi Oliver,

Thank you for your explanation!
I’ll try asap and letting you know.

Anyway, there is this repository where a guy is going to port Mattias Ellert TWAIN Sane Interface for Mac OS X to newer macOS versions.
Just give it a look. I think you could help him better than me. :)
https://github.com/genose/macos-sierra-sane-binaries

This is an Issue I opened on GitLab sane-backends repository. Could this be related to your fix? If yes, I’m gonna close it.
https://gitlab.com/sane-project/backends/issues/38

Best,
Umberto

> Il giorno 28 apr 2019, alle ore 17:22, Oliver Schwartz <Oliver.Schwartz at gmx.de> ha scritto:
> 
> Umberto,
> 
> > I would like to try this patch, how can I do?
> 
> You can add the patch to the homebrew formula (see the attached file). To do this, either use
> brew edit sane-backends
> or replace the file directly (/usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-core/Formula/sane-backends.rb).
> 
> You need to install Xcode from the Apple app store to compile from source.
> 
> The compilation didn’t work for me out of the box because of a missing include file ‘jerror.h’. To fix this, I had to create another symlink:
> cd /usr/local/include
> ln -s ../Cellar/jpeg/9c/include/jerror.h
> 
> Then, run 
> brew reinstall sane-backends -s
> 
> 
> > Another thing: since the Mac recognize the USB Scanner already, would it be possible to utilize the default macOS library for handling usb devices? So configuring sane-backends with this instead of libusb. I’m just asking. I tried searching something, I found old Apple Developer articles about it – e.g. https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/DeviceDrivers/Conceptual/USBBook/USBIntro/USBIntro.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40002643-TPXREF101
> 
> There is not much benefit to gain - the beauty of libusb is that it provides a common interface to usb related tasks on every platform. The different behaviour concerning configuration of custom devices is not a libusb problem, it is just different behaviour of the underlying operation system. So circumventing libusb wouldn’t fix anything.
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Oliver
> 
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