[Lazarus] libusb access from Lazarus

Marc Santhoff M.Santhoff at t-online.de
Mon Nov 24 13:22:57 CET 2008


Am Montag, den 24.11.2008, 10:55 +0000 schrieb Mark Morgan Lloyd:
> Henry Vermaak wrote:
> 
> > the ftdi chip is practically a usb to serial converter, so you can
> > actually use that.  if you look at their windows dll api, you'll see
> > that they've got a set of functions that mimic the windows serial
> > functions.  otherwise there are serial comms units for fpc (but i
> > haven't used any of them).
> 
> I'll be looking at comms coding at some point, but more important is 
> making sure that I can run legacy arcane protocols- hence my interest in 
> DOSemu, which is good enough to run things like EPROM blasters.
> 
> Does anybody use libusb-win32? If so could I have a copy of the unpacked 
> binaries- I've got NT4 systems here which do have USB low-level drivers 
> but the installer insists on NT5 and I don't want to start working out 
> how to rebuild them.

I have installed that stuff once on w2k, can you give the exact names of
the DLLs you need? (... attention, henn and egg problem
approaching ... ;)

Marc





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