Re: [Usbpicprog-technical] win7 testing

[Francesco <f18...@ya...>]

Hi Frans,

2009/11/30 Frans Schreuder <fra...@gm...>:
> I don't have any 64 bit windows system, in fact the only windows that I
> have is a 32 bit winXP (which I don't often use). Even though I have
> never tested it on a 64 bit system, the libusb driver wizard (a tool
> delivered with libusb-win32 to generate a device driver to let the
> device communicate with libusb) does create a 64 bit driver.
hmm, I've never seen such libusb-win32 driver wizard, I'll look better :)

> I think it
> should work with a 32-bit binary on winXP-64 but I have never tested it.
> For the time being let's investigate the possibilities.
I suspect that on Win >= Vista 64 bit libusb-win32 doesn't currently
work. At least libusb-win32 forums are full of people asking help
about this and people lamenting that libusb-win32 ruined their usb
system (ouch!).

Anyway there are good news as I got in touch with libusb (1.0)
developers (see libusb.org) and some of them are working on a
WinUSB-based USB backend right in these days
(http://libusb.org/wiki/windows_backend). If their work succeed, then
there would finally be a cross-platform (win,mac,linux), up-to-date
(libusb-0.1 is no longer maintained!) USB library with lots of
features and a clean API :)

Would it be ok for you to upgrade to libusb-1.0 if and when the Win
port gets fixed?

Francesco