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Subject: Re: Re: New user, testing libftdi RC 1.0

From: Thomas Jarosch <thomas.jarosch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: libftdi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2013 16:38:06 +0100
On Thursday, 3. January 2013 09:44:22 Xiaofan Chen 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/

Hmm, Xiaofan, I'm wondering if we should mention this in the
"README.mingw".

In fact it even mentions libusb 0.1.12 :o)

Care to send a patch?

Cheers,
Thomas


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