Xiaofan Chen wrote: > Now that Windows 8 and Windows RT have been released to the > general public and new computers/tablets/hybirds are being > released with Win8 and WinRT as the OS. It will be interesting > to see how libusbx work under Windows 8.
It shouldn't be an issue at all. Internally, Windows 8 is not all that different from Windows 7. All of my USB drivers have just plugged-and-played. Only the UI is different, although the UI is DRAMATICALLY different. Even for a Microsoft fanboy like me, there is much to hate here. There is one small installation difference. In Windows 8, all driver packages must have a CAT file. I don't know whether the non-WinUSB back-ends were using a CAT file before, but that may be an issue. > Right now I assume libusbx will not work under Windows RT. Right, and it never will. You cannot run standard Win32 applications or DLLs in Windows RT at all. The APIs are blocked. Unless you get special blessing from Microsoft (and so far only the browser makers have that blessing), RT will only run "Windows Store" applications that run under the control of the WinRT runtime, and the runtime is the only component that can do I/O. > But maybe it is worth looking at how to get it work there. > WinUSB apparently works under Windows RT. The only way to use USB is through the WinRT runtime. That runtime uses WinUSB. At this point, there is no other way to do it. -- Tim Roberts, t...@probo.com Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct _______________________________________________ libusbx-devel mailing list libusbx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libusbx-devel
