libusb-win32-devel

[Libusb-win32-devel] libUsb Windows XP 64-bit

[Bachelier, G. <geo...@at...>]

Hi there!

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We provide the libUsb-Win32 driver and DLL to our customers within our
software package (Atmel - In-System Programming application). One of our
customers is asking for an XP 64-bit version of libUsb. Is there
anything available or planned?

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Thanks in advance for your time,

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Georges

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Re: [Libusb-win32-devel] libUsb Windows XP 64-bit

[Xiaofan C. <xia...@gm...>]

On 8/30/07, Bachelier, Georges <geo...@at...> wrote:
> We provide the libUsb-Win32 driver and DLL to our customers within our
> software package (Atmel =96 In-System Programming application). One of ou=
r
> customers is asking for an XP 64-bit version of libUsb. Is there anything
> available or planned?
>

According to the forum archive, XP 64bit is  supported but not Vista 64bit.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Stephan Meyer
Date: Mar 20, 2007 8:15 PM
Subject: Re: [Libusb-win32-devel] Windows 2000 and Vista support (was:
usb_claim_interface returns error code -22 on Windows)
To: lib...@li...
> * On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 11:02:10AM +0100 Stephan Meyer wrote:
>
> > > OS version: Windows 2K 5.00.2195 SP4
> > > libUsb: 0.1.10.1
> > > Peripheral Manager: our HID device status is OK
> > > Task Manager: libusbd-nt.exe is running
> > >
> > > I have installed the 0.1.12.0 version to check if it could
> > > fix the problem, but the things go even worse: the filter driver
> > > service starts then stops after a few seconds. This has been tested
> > > on a Windows XP machine with the same behavior: the service starts an=
d
> > > stops.
> >
> > Please do not use the old version any more. It's outdated.
>
> This reminds me: What is the state of libusb-win32 for Windows 2000? I
> found that the latest release does not even install with the DDK
> (3790.1830) in the Windows 2000 build environment. Does it mean that
> Windows 2000 is not supported anymore?

Windows 2000 is fully supported, even Win98SE. I just installed the 0.1.12.=
1
release (compiled with mingw) on win2k-sp4 (vmplayer install) and it works
like a charm.

Don't use the DDK's Win2k build environment, use the XP or the
Server 2003 build environment even if you want to compile for Win2k.

>
> What about Vista 64 bit? As far as I see, the driver is not signed,
> thus, it should refuse to install there. (I do not have Vista, so, I
> cannot check for myself).

You are right, Vista-64bit won't let you install unsigned drivers.
This means that this platform is currently not supported.
To resolve this issue, future versions of libusb-win32 will use Vistas
built-in kernel driver winusb.sys.

>
> Do you plan to support 64 bit Windows at all?

XP-64bit and Server-2003-64bit are supported. Use the files
libusb0_x64.dll and libusb0_x64.sys on these systems.

Re: [Libusb-win32-devel] libUsb Windows XP 64-bit

[Spiro T. <an-...@sp...>]

Hello,

* On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 07:54:14PM +0800 Xiaofan Chen wrote:
> On 8/30/07, Bachelier, Georges <geo...@at...> wrote:
> > We provide the libUsb-Win32 driver and DLL to our customers within our
> > software package (Atmel – In-System Programming application). One of our
> > customers is asking for an XP 64-bit version of libUsb. Is there anything
> > available or planned?
> 
> According to the forum archive, XP 64bit is  supported but not Vista 64bit.

Unless someone is willing to contribute his Verisign (or similar) key to
sign a 64 bit driver, it is unlikely that this will change soon. That
is, this holds true as long as there is no new implementation that
utilizes the built-in driver winusb.sys.

Citing Stephan in Message-Id: <206...@we...>:

* On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 09:03:58PM +0200 Stephan Meyer wrote:
> 
> The current version (0.1.12.1) works without any problems
> on vista-32bit but NOT on vista-64bit.
> Furture versions of the DLL will use vista's built-in winusb.sys
> driver and will therefore work on both platforms. If you're 
> interrested in a pre-pre-alpha version then grab the latest sources 
> from the SVN and try it out.
> http://libusb-win32.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/libusb-win32/trunk/libusb1/

So, you might want to help Stephan in getting the new version done in
order to get the Vista 64-bit version.

Regards,
   Spiro.

-- 
Spiro R. Trikaliotis                              http://opencbm.sf.net/
http://www.trikaliotis.net/                     http://www.viceteam.org/

Re: [Libusb-win32-devel] libUsb Windows XP 64-bit

[Xiaofan C. <xia...@gm...>]

On 8/31/07, Spiro Trikaliotis <an-...@sp...> wrote=
:
> * On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 07:54:14PM +0800 Xiaofan Chen wrote:
> > On 8/30/07, Bachelier, Georges <geo...@at...> wrote:
> > > We provide the libUsb-Win32 driver and DLL to our customers within ou=
r
> > > software package (Atmel =96 In-System Programming application). One o=
f our
> > > customers is asking for an XP 64-bit version of libUsb. Is there anyt=
hing
> > > available or planned?
> >
> > According to the forum archive, XP 64bit is  supported but not Vista 64=
bit.
>
> Unless someone is willing to contribute his Verisign (or similar) key to
> sign a 64 bit driver, it is unlikely that this will change soon. That
> is, this holds true as long as there is no new implementation that
> utilizes the built-in driver winusb.sys.

I am not an USB expert but even with winusb.sys one still needs to
provide an INF file. Does that mean the situation will be any better
unless the INF is WHQLed? I do not have Vista now.

For example, people still need to provide an inf file for CDC-ACM
device even though they use the default usbser.sys in Windows.

The safe bet is HID which does not need an inf file in most cases.

> Citing Stephan in Message-Id: <206...@we...>:
>
> * On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 09:03:58PM +0200 Stephan Meyer wrote:
> >
> > The current version (0.1.12.1) works without any problems
> > on vista-32bit but NOT on vista-64bit.
> > Furture versions of the DLL will use vista's built-in winusb.sys
> > driver and will therefore work on both platforms. If you're
> > interrested in a pre-pre-alpha version then grab the latest sources
> > from the SVN and try it out.
> > http://libusb-win32.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/libusb-win32/trunk/libus=
b1/
>
> So, you might want to help Stephan in getting the new version done in
> order to get the Vista 64-bit version.
>

I would like to help but I do not know much about programming. I
can certainly help for testing. I've tested the HID backend and
it is only partially working. Not so sure anout the WinUSB
backend since I am still learning how to use WinUSB. There
are very few WinUSB examples on the web. For example, I am
having problems with WinUSB here.
http://forum.microchip.com/tm.aspx?m=3D264046
Now I have an WinUSB host example in Visual C++ 2005
Express so I am learning how to use it.

Hopefully some other person will help Stephan to get the HID
and WinUSB backend to work. That would be really nice.


Regards,
Xiaofan