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Subject: Re: Python 64 bit installation

From: Xiaofan Chen <xiaofanc@xxxxxxxxx>
To: libftdi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2018 21:54:07 +0800
On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 9:49 PM, Xiaofan Chen <xiaofanc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 12:02 AM, creeksidedas <creeksidedas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hi, I am trying to install libftdi for 64-bit Python on 64-bit Windows.
>>
>> None of the packages on picusb actually work; when I try to install them by
>> copying dlls over to site-packages, they all throw:
>>
>> Am I installing this wrong? It seems as though ftdi1.py is finding something
>> wrong with running _ftdi1.pyd.
>
> I have not updated the binary download for a while since it is now
> easy to build libftdi under MSYS2.
>    https://sourceforge.net/projects/picusb/files/?source=navbar
>
> The downloads are outdated and it is better you build libftdi by
> yourself to suit
> your needs -- eg, 64bit Python bindings which is usable by your Python 
> version.
> MSYS2: https://www.msys2.org/

BTW, if you use Python 3.x, maybe you want to try out pyftdi which may
be easier to use. It can be easily install using pip. It is based on
pyusb/libusb
and not libftdi though.
https://github.com/eblot/pyftdi


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Xiaofan

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