[fpc-pascal] Re: Accessing USB HID from Lazarus programs?

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Bo Berglund wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 08:55:44 +0000, Mark Morgan Lloyd
> <markMLl.fpc-pascal at telemetry.co.uk> wrote:
> 
>> I'm accessing a Velleman K8055, which I think fits your description, 
>> using libusb etc. I used Uwe Zimmerman's port of libusb 
>> http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Hardware_Access#USB with very minor 
>> changes, I used some C sources as examples but can't remember which- 
>> possibly http://libk8055.sourceforge.net/
> 
> On the page it says:
> 
> libusb
> A cross platform possibility for Linux, BSDs and Mac OS X is libusb
> 
> Does this mean it won't work on Windows?

There's a port of libusb for Windows. I half-heartedly tried my code a 
couple of years ago against NT with the Edgeport USB stack but it failed 
due to a missing kernel call, I've not tried it with a newer version of 
Windows (i.e. one with the WDM) but I'd suggest it would be worth 
investigating.

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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