Re: [Usbpicprog-technical] win7 testing

[Frans S. <fra...@gm...>]

Hi Francesco,



> 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 :)

In my trunk there is even a 64 bit driver and a 64 bit version of libusb0_x64.dll
I have tested the 32 bit version on vista (installed it with compatibility XP mode)
and and it worked perfectly. So I am quite surprised that it doesn't work on 64 bit.
> 
> 
> > 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!).

Actually this happened with me as well the first time but just uninstalling libusb fixed the problem
When I then installed libusb in XP compatibility mode everything worked out perfectly.
> 
> 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 (libusb-0.1 is no longer maintained!)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?

I will definitely upgrade if it's there for all systems!