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On 08/07/2009 04:20, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> It is a library that allows userspace application to access USB
> devices on Windows operation systems (Win98SE, WinME, Win2k, WinXP).

What about 64-bit Windows?  Is a 64-bit driver available somewhere?

> It is derived from and fully API compatible to libusb available at
> http://libusb.sourceforge.net.

Well, almost:

1) <usb.h> has a #include <windows.h>.  While that's certainly necessary 
inside of libusb, it's not required for the public interface and 
actually messes up some things which #include <usb.h>.  Could you please 
move that #include <windows.h> into an internal header, or into the 
sources, so as not to expose it in the public interface?

2) Nowadays libusb provides a pkg-config file:
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2008-05/msg00151.html


Yaakov

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