> It's not that easy. First QLGT on Windows is compiled with Visual Studio 
> and uses Microsoft's runtime libraries. They won't really work together 
> with the ones from cygwin and gcc.
> 
> Second, afaik, libusb will not really work for Windows. You have to use 
> the drivers supplied by Garmin.
> 
> To port these drivers is not really a work from scratch. The first 
> version of QLandkarte, the one without the GT, has support for all 
> devices related to the GPSMap60SCx. Thus there is a blue print on how to 
> do it. It's just nobody cared about it so far.
> 
Thank you for the insight Oliver, as I managed to create a pair of Garmin
devices' DLL with little effor I thought the missing bits were just minor
issues, but it is clear now that there is a need for some major code
changes and a different toolchain needs be used.

Kind regards,

-- 
Jose Luis Domingo Lopez
Linux Registered User #189436, Linux Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS (3.2.0-33-generic-pae)

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