Re: [Libusb-win32-devel] driver, not device, installation

[Tyler B. <mrb...@gm...>]

OK, I set up a new VM and it does indeed install correctly there, but does
not on my normal dev machine. I guess I need to figure out why it's not
installing on my normal machine.

On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 1:00 PM Tyler Bell <mrb...@gm...> wrote:

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> On Sun, Sep 9, 2018 at 8:55 PM Xiaofan Chen <xia...@gm...> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 10:38 PM Tyler Bell <mrb...@gm...> wrote:
>> >
>> > From what I can tell, that is not, what I need. That targets the driver
>> to a device,
>> > which is what the bug 84 conversation indicates I should not do. I only
>> want the .sys and .dll in
>> > the correct windows directories and registered to the system. This is
>> complicated by the need for
>> > UAC and 32/64 bit divide(a 32 bit app cannot install drivers on a
>> 64-bit machine and and 64-bit
>> > app cannot run on a 32-bit machine).
>> >  These are not huge issues, but as libusb has already nicely solved
>> these concerns for "primary
>> > driver" installation, it would be great(and, it seems, trivial?) if we
>> could reuse the existing code for
>> > filter driver installation.
>>
>> If you install this file libusb-win32-devel-filter-1.2.6.0.exe, it
>> will do the necessary for you to put
>> the libusb0.sys and libusb0.dll in the right place. And it will create
>> the start-up menu for the
>> inf-wizard (not working for new version of Windows, that is why I
>> added libusbk-inf-wizard.exe
>> here as well and filter wizard which still works for Windows 10.
>> https://sourceforge.net/projects/libusb-win32/files/libusb-win32-releases/
>>
>> Or if you install libusbK-3.0.7.0-setup.exe (recommended over the
>> above package), it will install
>> libusb0.sys/libusbk.sys/libusb0.dll/libusbk.dll in the right place.
>> And in the end it will run the
>> filter wizard for you as well.
>> https://sourceforge.net/projects/libusb-win32/files/libusbK-release/
>
>
> Neither of those are working on my system. If I use
> libusb-win32-devel-filter-1.2.6.0.exe, I only get stuff under C:\Program
> Files\LibUSB-Win32, the DLL/SYS are not in the Windows folder.
> Subsequently, trying to install an INF as a filter driver, the device fails.
>
>
>>
>>
>> > Backing up a bit, I have to interface with a device that has a driver
>> from the manufacturer(FTDI
>> > USB-serial cables). The OEM driver is limited(but also required) so
>> I've augmented it w/ libusb.
>> > The best way to manage this on a client's machine that I can find is to
>> use libusb as a filter driver.
>> > However, to install libusb as a filter driver for a device, libwdi
>> assumes that libusb already exists
>> > on the client machine. This is not a good assumption to make for a
>> client machine. Infwizard doesn't
>> > seem capable of creating an inf for filter driver mode and I'm not sure
>> that, even if it did, it would copy
>> > the DLL&SYS files.
>>
>> If you use FTDI device, better way is to use libftdi-1.0 and it uses
>> libusb-1.0 API, there you
>> have the option of using different libusb-1.0 Windows backend, one of
>> the option is to use
>> usbdk (filter, similar to libusb-win32 filter but works better in new
>> Windows versions).
>>
>
> I would love to use libftdi, but I am stuck w/ the stock driver from FTDI.
> That is why I'm trying to use libusb as a filter driver; I need to add a
> bit of functionality to one tool, but there are a handful of other tools
> that use the same FTDI device and those are built w/ the FTDI driver.
>
>
>>
>> For usbdk, it is the same, you need to the 32bit/64bit installer first
>> (as admin) and then you
>> can use the command line to install/uninstall the filter.
>> https://github.com/daynix/UsbDk
>> https://github.com/daynix/UsbDk/releases
>>
>> You may need to use libusb-1.0.21 build with usbdk for now and not
>> libusb-1.0.22 due to
>> the following change. libftdi has not been updated to incorporate the
>> change.
>> https://github.com/libusb/libusb/issues/443
>>
>> Leagacy libftdi-0.1 uses libusb-0.1 API and you can use libusb-win32
>> filter with it but libftdi-0.1
>> is no longer maintained.
>>
>> --
>> Xiaofan
>>
>>
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