Re: [Libusb-devel] windows_backend: install .inf file with NSIS/other installer

[Pete B. <pe...@ak...>]

On 2011.11.27 16:01, Satz Klauer wrote:
> I plan to create a (NSIS) installer script to let the .inf file of my
> libusb1-based device be installed automatically so that the user does
> not have to tell Windows where to look for the .inf file.
> (...)
> So what to do? How else can I install an .inf file?

Have you looked into using libwdi [1]?

It was created to solve exactly the problem of installing driver files 
for libusb-1.0 applications (or libusb-win32 or libusbK ones).

While the most common usage of libwdi is the generation and signing of a 
generic driver package on the fly, for seamless installation, it does 
also allow the embedding of your own custom inf and driver files if needed.
Oh, and it also provides an example of an NSIS script for libusb driver 
installation [2] or [3]...

Now, in case you did look at libwdi (or decide not to use it after 
looking at it), I'd appreciate if you provide some feedback on why you 
don't think it may be suitable for your task, as it was very much 
designed to solve all of the issues surrounding the libusb-1.0 driver 
installation on Windows, and improvement suggestions are most welcome.

Regards,

/Pete

[1] http://libwdi.sf.net
[2] 
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/libwdi/index.php?title=Signed_driver_walkthrough#Nullsoft_Scriptable_Install_System_Script
[3] 
http://libwdi.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=libwdi/libwdi;a=blob;f=examples/wdi-simple.nsi