Re: developing Application software for a host to communicate with a USB device

On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 07:50:41 -0700 (PDT), Tomás Ó hÉilidhe
<toe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


This all depends on what kind of USB device you're using. There are many
possibilities:

1. Mass storage device
2. Standard HID device (mouse, keyboard, joystick)
3. Custom HID device
4. Audio device
5. Virtual serial port
6. Custom device type
7. Many other types like printers, scanners, cameras, etc.


Is there any cross-platform library for USB communication?

For low level access there is libusb.
http://libusb.wiki.sourceforge.net/
and the windows port
http://libusb-win32.sourceforge.net/

Regards
Anton Erasmus
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