Re: [Lazarus] libusb access from Lazarus

2008-11-27 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: Marc Santhoff wrote: 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.

Re: [Lazarus] libusb access from Lazarus

2008-11-24 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Luca Olivetti wrote: En/na Mark Morgan Lloyd ha escrit: Thanks Henry, got that. One of the things I'm due to be asked about is recoding some RS232 monitoring stuff, and I was wondering whether there was any magic I was missing. You shouldn't need libusb for that, the usb-serial

Re: [Lazarus] libusb access from Lazarus

2008-11-24 Thread Henry Vermaak
2008/11/22 Mark Morgan Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Henry Vermaak wrote: 2008/11/21 Mark Morgan Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: I notice that http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Hardware_Access#libusb lists three sets of libusb headers from Uwe Zimmermann, Johann Glaser and Joe

Re: [Lazarus] libusb access from Lazarus

2008-11-24 Thread 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

Re: [Lazarus] libusb access from Lazarus

2008-11-24 Thread Marc Santhoff
Am Montag, den 24.11.2008, 10:55 + 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

Re: [Lazarus] libusb access from Lazarus

2008-11-24 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Marc Santhoff wrote: 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

Re: [Lazarus] libusb access from Lazarus

2008-11-23 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Mark Morgan Lloyd ha escrit: Thanks Henry, got that. One of the things I'm due to be asked about is recoding some RS232 monitoring stuff, and I was wondering whether there was any magic I was missing. You shouldn't need libusb for that, the usb-serial converter should work right out

Re: [Lazarus] libusb access from Lazarus

2008-11-21 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: I notice that http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Hardware_Access#libusb lists three sets of libusb headers from Uwe Zimmermann, Johann Glaser and Joe Jared. This page also mentions that there are specific interface files available for FTDI devices- does anybody know

Re: [Lazarus] libusb access from Lazarus

2008-11-21 Thread Henry Vermaak
2008/11/21 Mark Morgan Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: I notice that http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Hardware_Access#libusb lists three sets of libusb headers from Uwe Zimmermann, Johann Glaser and Joe Jared. This page also mentions that there are specific interface

Re: [Lazarus] libusb access from Lazarus

2008-11-21 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Henry Vermaak wrote: 2008/11/21 Mark Morgan Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: I notice that http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Hardware_Access#libusb lists three sets of libusb headers from Uwe Zimmermann, Johann Glaser and Joe Jared. This page also mentions that there are

Re: [Lazarus] libusb access from Lazarus

2008-11-19 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Henry Vermaak wrote: 2008/11/11 Mark Morgan Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I notice that http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Hardware_Access#libusb lists three sets of libusb headers from Uwe Zimmermann, Johann Glaser and Joe Jared. Does anybody have any experience of or preference for one or the

Re: [Lazarus] libusb access from Lazarus

2008-11-18 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Luca Olivetti wrote: En/na Mark Morgan Lloyd ha escrit: Thanks Luca, I'll investigate. It's only for a Velleman K8055 USB board I'm tinkering with- just a few low-speed analogues and digitals. I took a look at the program at http://linuxk8055.free.fr/ and it seems pretty simple, you

Re: [Lazarus] libusb access from Lazarus

2008-11-12 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Luca Olivetti wrote: En/na Mark Morgan Lloyd ha escrit: I notice that http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Hardware_Access#libusb lists three sets of libusb headers from Uwe Zimmermann, Johann Glaser and Joe Jared. Does anybody have any experience of or preference for one or the other of

Re: [Lazarus] libusb access from Lazarus

2008-11-12 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Mark Morgan Lloyd ha escrit: I notice that http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Hardware_Access#libusb lists three sets of libusb headers from Uwe Zimmermann, Johann Glaser and Joe Jared. Does anybody have any experience of or preference for one or the other of these, in particular

Re: [Lazarus] libusb access from Lazarus

2008-11-12 Thread Luca Olivetti
En/na Mark Morgan Lloyd ha escrit: Thanks Luca, I'll investigate. It's only for a Velleman K8055 USB board I'm tinkering with- just a few low-speed analogues and digitals. I took a look at the program at http://linuxk8055.free.fr/ and it seems pretty simple, you should have no problem

Re: [Lazarus] libusb access from Lazarus

2008-11-12 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Luca Olivetti wrote: I took a look at the program at http://linuxk8055.free.fr/ and it seems pretty simple, you should have no problem driving it from freepascal. Yes, that's the one I used but it's got some build problems that had me scratching my head. I'm hoping to be able to use Lazarus

Re: [Lazarus] libusb access from Lazarus

2008-11-12 Thread Henry Vermaak
2008/11/12 Mark Morgan Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Thanks Henry, noted in particular openusb. ARM is one of the platforms I'm being asked about, as is SPARC- the latter could obviously be a challenge if there are embedded endianness issues anywhere. hmm, i've used libusb on a big endian arm

Re: [Lazarus] libusb access from Lazarus

2008-11-12 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Henry Vermaak wrote: i used the one by Uwe Zimmermann (the api is quite stable - at least if you're using the 0.1.12 version, which hasn't been updated a lot). i've got it working on arm-linux without any problems (iirc). if you're interested in doing isochronous or asynchronous i/o, you

Re: [Lazarus] libusb access from Lazarus

2008-11-12 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Henry Vermaak wrote: 2008/11/12 Mark Morgan Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Thanks Henry, noted in particular openusb. ARM is one of the platforms I'm being asked about, as is SPARC- the latter could obviously be a challenge if there are embedded endianness issues anywhere. hmm, i've used libusb

Re: [Lazarus] libusb access from Lazarus

2008-11-12 Thread Henry Vermaak
2008/11/11 Mark Morgan Lloyd [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I notice that http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Hardware_Access#libusb lists three sets of libusb headers from Uwe Zimmermann, Johann Glaser and Joe Jared. Does anybody have any experience of or preference for one or the other of these, in

[Lazarus] libusb access from Lazarus

2008-11-11 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
I notice that http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Hardware_Access#libusb lists three sets of libusb headers from Uwe Zimmermann, Johann Glaser and Joe Jared. Does anybody have any experience of or preference for one or the other of these, in particular when not working on x86? -- Mark Morgan