Re: [Libusb-win32-devel] Windows 2000 and Vista support

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

Hello Stephan,

* On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 01:15:07PM +0100 Stephan Meyer wrote:
 
> 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.

Good to know. I am sorry that I did not test it myself, but currently, I
do not have a Win 2000 machine myself.

I was very surprised because the Win 2000 build environment did not
work.

> 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.

I have had the opposite experience: Drivers compiled with the XP and
2003 environment did not work with the "lower" versions.

 
> 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.

Ok, I wanted to propose the UMDF, but obviously, you are already aware
of it.

As I wrote you in my private mail, I am no specialist in USB. OTOH, I
already wanted to start working with UMDF and KMDF myself.

Thus, if you need any help in porting the driver, feel free to ask me.
If time permits, I will try to help you, if you want.


> > 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.

*grmph* Of course.

I already saw these files in the distribution, but I totally forgot
them. :(


Regards,
   Spiro.

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