Thank you for the good advice. I have now downloaded and compiled and linked in with the libusbx
fork, and it works well. I will carry on experimenting.
> Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2013 09:44:22 +0800
> Subject: Re: New user, testing libftdi RC 1.0
> From: xiaofanc@xxxxxxxxx
> To: libftdi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 8:22 AM, Shabaz Yousaf <shabaz_yousaf@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > At this stage, I'm very confused why the attempt with libftdi 1.0RC and
> > libusb1.0.9 compiles fine on my Win 7 machine,
> > but generates the "unable to open ftdi device" if I execute serial_test.exe
> > -p 0x500.
>
> Another thing, do not use libusb-1.0.9 under Windows, it is totally broken.
> The git version is better. You can look at the git log and see that there
> are a few Windows related critical fix after the libusb-1.0.9 release.
> http://git.libusb.org/?p=libusb.git;a=shortlog;js=1
>
> But the fork libusbx is way better under Windows since it promises
> faster release.
> http://libusbx.org/
>
>
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