On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 10:32 PM, Alan Ott <alan@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I've had the same ideas of creating a cross-platform HID api, and started a > similar project. Maybe we could benefit from one another. What I've got so > far is at: > www.signal11.us/oss/hidapi > > Of course, what's up there right now only supports Windows, and was > originally intended to get around the fact that the HID headers and import > lib aren't part of the Platform SDK, but part of the Driver Kit (It's all > explained on the web page). I have a working backend for hidraw, which I > need to get cleaned up and committed. Of course, the Hidraw backend depends > on some of the queued changes which won't get in the mainline kernel until > 2.6.36. > > I have a Mac here and intend to make it work on OS X as well. Great. I will forward this to the libusb mailing list. > I did not realize that libusb-1.0 would talk to the native Windows HID > backend. I don't see anything like that in the git version of libusb-1.0 or > libusb-win32. Is this on another branch or something, or did I miss it? > It is currently being integrated into the main libusb-1.0 git tree but the integration will take some time. The author is Pete Batard and the tree is here. http://git.libusb.org/?p=libusb-pbatard.git http://www.libusb.org/wiki/windows_backend -- Xiaofan http://sourceforge.net/projects/libusb-win32/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
