Hi, I discovered MinGW.org today and that turns out to be the easiest way to build Windows binaries of dfu-util, and even comfortably on a Linux machine. It builds latest git of libusb without any issue, and after fixing up my git tree dfu-util builds as well. I tested the resulting (32-bit) dfu-util.exe file (and libusb-1.0.dll) on Windows 7 (64-bit) and it works fine.
So forget messing around with Windows IDEs, huge downloads, $399 and EULAs, just do "apt-get install mingw32" instead :) The recommended way of building dfu-util for Windows _on Windows_ will be running mingw natively or in a Linux virtual machine. Or use a Linux live CD, I will provide an all-in-one script for this. One thing you can not get around on Windows is the driver installation. For libusb-1.0, the actual driver is winusb.sys (included in the OS), so you have to register your device with that driver before libusb can access it - through winusb. This driver registration can easily be done with the "zadig" program, described on http://libusb.org/wiki/windows_backend. In time for dfu-util 0.6 I can write up more detailed instructions on the web site, and also provide Windows binaries for the release. Tormod _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@lists.openmoko.org https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
