Re: [Libusb-devel] Windows support for libusb-1.0

[Francesco <fra...@gm...>]

Hi Xiaofan,

2009/11/30 Xiaofan Chen <xia...@gm...>:
> WinUSB is a good backend. In the current libusb-win32 1.0 branch, there
> are three backend, one is WinUSB (XP, Vista, Windows 7, both 32bit and
> 64bit),
do you mean the backend stored here:
http://libusb-win32.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/libusb-win32/trunk/libusb1/
?
Unfortunately there's no activity there since 2 years and AFAIK it's
not included in the libusb releases... (in fact the libusb-win32
forums contain lots of people asking for 64bit support AFAIK).

> the other one is HID (pretty much Windows 98SE and above), yet
> the other is the libusb-win32 device driver (kernel mode driver and user
> mode DLL, Windows 98SE/ME/2K/XP/Vista, XP 32bit/64bit, Vista 32bit
> only, could work for Vista 64bit if a paid digital signature recognized by
> Microsoft for device driver use is used). You can still have these multiple
> backend.
>
> If you have WinUSB and HID backend done, isochronous transfer
> is missing but you have covered many USB device out there which
> may want to use libusb.
I agree...

Francesco