Re: [Libusb-win32-devel] libusb-win32 SVN version and HID backend

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

On 6/26/07, Stephan Meyer <ste...@we...> wrote:

> > And if I want to try out a libusb based program ported from Linux, how do I
> > use the HID backend (without using the device driver)?
>
> You can just use the libusb API as if the HID would be a 'normal' libusb
> based device.
>

Somehow this does not work yet. It fails to find PICKit 2 with this
approach. If I "update" the HID driver to the libusb-win32 device driver,
then it works.


XFCHEN@APSGSGPXFCHEN /c/Myprog/pickit/pk2-3.00-alpha10
$ ./pk2.exe -on

PK2 version 3.00 alpha 10 - 2007/06/10

Fatal error> Could not find PICkit2 programmer--
you might try lsusb to see if it's actually there.

If I am using the libusb-win32 device driver, then it seems to work.

XFCHEN@APSGSGPXFCHEN /c/Myprog/pickit/pk2-3.00-alpha10
$ ./pk2.exe -on


PK2 version 3.00 alpha 10 - 2007/06/10

Locating USB Microchip PICkit2 (vendor 0x04d8/product 0x0033)

LIBUSB-DLL - trace: usb_init(): dll version: 1.0.0.0
Found USB PICkit as device 'dev0002' on USB bus /bus0
Communication established. PICkit2 firmware version is 2.2.0