Re: [Libusb-win32-devel] Install with another app

[Paul A. <pau...@gm...>]

Adam,

That is one of the most helpful posts I've ever seen! Thank you.

Paul Alfille

On 10/24/06, Adam Kropelin <akr...@ro...> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 06:43:03PM -0400, Paul Alfille wrote:
> > I'm porting an application (OWFS http://www.owfs.org) that uses libusb
> under
> > Linux, FreeBSD and MacOSX successfully.
> >
> > With a bit of fiddling, it runs under cygwin with libusb-win32. Quite a
> nice
> > testament to your work!
>
> That does rock, doesn't it? I had the same experience with Apcupsd where
> I wrote a libusb-based driver for Solaris and Darwin and decided "just
> for the hack of it" to try it on Windows...and it very nearly just
> worked. A couple minor patches to libusb-win32 and it worked 100%.
>
> > Now I'd like to package everything. I've gotten an opensource windows
> > installer (NSIS from Nullsoft) and have put in links to cygwin and
> > libusb-win32 to satisfy the GPL requirements. I'd like to make a binary
> > installation option that guide people though setup rather than send them
> to
> > multiple places to install multiple packages.
> >
> > What do I need for the binary install? libusb0.dll? A .sys file? My .inf
> > file? Are there any configuration routines I should start?
>
> We do this in the Apcupsd NSIS installer for Windows. Take a look at
> winapcupsd.nsi
> (<
> http://apcupsd.cvs.sourceforge.net/apcupsd/apcupsd/src/win32/winapcupsd.nsi?revision=1.12&view=markup>)
> for an example. Basically you install the
> *.inf, *.dll, and *.sys files and then run an entrypoint in the DLL to
> actually register the driver.
>
> --Adam
>
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