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.

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