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Crazy USB API/driver status on Windows
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| After browsing and reading many pages/sources, I'm still not perfecty sure below is correct! | |
| PROJECT develops-DLL has-API works-with-DRIVER | |
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| libusb libusb0.DLL libusb-0.1 libusb0.SYS, libusbk.SYS | |
| libusb-win32 libusb0.DLL libusb-0.1 (filter-driver-version-of-)libusb0.SYS | |
| libusb libusb-1.0.DLL libusb-1.0 WinUSB.SYS | |
| libusbx (*1) libusb-1.0.DLL libusb-1.0 WinUSB.SYS | |
| OpenUSB libusb-1.0.DLL libusb-1.0 WinUSB.sys | |
| libusbk libusbk.DLL libusbk+WinUSB libusbk.SYS, WinUSB.SYS, libusb0.SYS (*2) | |
| Microsoft WinUSB.DLL WinUSB WinUSB.sys | |
| (*1) Project has merged back to libusb. | |
| (*2) Limited. Only part of the libusbk API can be used. | |
| So I guess if my goal is portability, I should be using libusb-1.0.dll with WinUSB.sys. | |
| And if my goal is usability-on-Windows, I should be using libusbk.dll, as this DLL works with any driver, meaning user does not have to worry about it. |
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