Hi, On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 11:00:04PM +0800, Xiaofan Chen wrote: > On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 4:34 AM, Paul Fertser <fercer...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Freddie, > > > > Today my coworker called me complaining he can't use OpenOCD on his > > Windows XP (yeah, lame!) with an Olimex adapter. > > So you are talking about the Windows binary provided by Freddie, > right?
Yes, sure. And he has a "drivers" subdirectory in his 7zip archive with libusb-win32 drivers plus a text file with some instructions for using Zadig. > > In the end it appeared he was confused by all the possible driver > > options (and I can easily see it happening with the other regular > > users too). > > Once you use Zadig, there will be less confusion. My coworker still managed to keep installing libusb-win32 even with Zadig even knowing he doesn't need libusb-0.1 support but libusb-1.0 (I told him what I knew but it wasn't obvious for him that libusb-win32 provides only libusb-0.1 support and winusb driver is what he's after). > > So my untested proposal for the future windows OpenOCD releases is to: > > > > 1. Remove all libusb-win32 files from the distribution archive; > > > > 2. Compile OpenOCD using libusb-compat for those drivers that are not > > ported to libusb-1.x or the common layer yet; > > Take note there is no libusb-compat under Windows, only > libusb-win32. Eh, now that's strange. I was sure libusb-compat is a thin emulation layer to allow using libusb-0.1 API by translating them to libusb-1.x calls, so I wasn't aware of any reasons it might not work under windows. > > 3. State in the drivers readme that if one is using stlink and has > > vendor's drivers installed he doesn't need anything extra; > > I believe that is for ST-Link V2 only. Good point. > > 4. Rephrase the Zadig installation instructions a bit to make it more > > clear for the non-native speakers that WinUSB driver _must_ be used > > for all the USB adapters (and either do not mention libusb-win32 at > > all or prohibit installing it :) ) > > > > What do you think? > > You still can not use WinUSB for those who want to use > libusb-0.1/libusb-win32. I had high hopes for libusb-compat. Why doesn't it work on windows? > An option is to use libusbK driver (Zadig supports WinUSB, > libusbK and libusb-win32 device driver) which will work for > both libusb-win32 and libusb-1.0/libusbx. Hmm... > BTW, a good news is that libusb/libusbx will be merging > again. Peter Stuge is too busy so that Nathan takes over > the libusb project and now libusb/libusbx will merge again. Wishing all the best to everybody involved, and long live libusb :) -- Be free, use free (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html) software! mailto:fercer...@gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ OpenOCD-devel mailing list OpenOCD-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openocd-devel
