[BRLTTY] Running Freedom Scientific Focus 14 in Windows 8 And Clarification on Errors

[Siju Samuel]

Hi,

I compiled the latest code in Mingw /Windows 7.  To us e USB, in the
readme.Windows it gives the following instruction and I am halted at
installing .INF file


INSTRUCTION as GiVEN in readme.windows :

For mingw:

Down load libusb-win32   ( as a note it looks like nothing to  be
installed. I did not find any .exe to install
 Reference  : http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/libusb-win32/wiki)

  For libusb-win32:

    Symlink the header and library files into MinGW installation, run:

       +  ln -s "/path/to/LibUSB-Win32/include/lusb0_usb.h" /mingw/include/
       +  ln -s "/path/to/LibUSB-Win32/lib/gcc/libusb.a" /mingw/lib/
       +  ln -s "/path/to/LibUSB-Win32/bin/x86/libusb0_x86.dll"
/mingw/bin/libusb0.dll



   +  cp "/path/to/LibUSB-Win32/bin/x86/libusb0.sys"
brltty/hotplug/libusb0.sys
   +  cp "/path/to/LibUSB-Win32/bin/x86/libusb0_x86.dll"
brltty/hotplug/libusb0.dll
   +  cp "/path/to/LibUSB-Win32/bin/amd64/libusb0.sys"
brltty/hotplug/libusb0_x64.sys
   +  cp "/path/to/LibUSB-Win32/bin/amd64/libusb0.dll"
brltty/hotplug/libusb0_x64.dll

and then right-click on brltty/hotplug/brltty.inf and select install, or on
braille device plug, point at the brltty/hotplug/brltty.inf file.

ISSUES :

1. RightClicking on the .inf file just opens up in a notepad.

2. Then I used "inf-wizard.exe"  as mentioned in the :
http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/libusb-win32/wik<http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/libusb-win32/wiki>
.
It gave the option to enter  deviceId/ProductId; but I guess  here it needs
 an option to enter and .INF file name. How to get that?

3. Running the .INF,  does it require any other files from
 "brltty/Hotplug" directory OR is just .inf file and the renamed libsub (as
above) are sufficient.?

Can you please check what am I missing in Running brltty.inf ?   The actual
device installed a Windows driver by itself when connected. Is that to
removed to run brltty?

Thanks,
SijU samuel













On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Siju Samuel <sijusamueltech at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Mario,
> Thanks. I will use 4.5.
> In  this site  http://brl.thefreecat.org/brltty/README.txt I did not see
> 4.5 pre-built version for windows.
> But there is a brltty45.zip which is for DOS. Which I am not sure is the
> right one to use for windows 7.
> I could also build brltty in mingw from the source code. Have to figure
> out the additional things to be done to use USB.
>
> Thanks,
> Siju Samuel
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 2:51 AM, Mario Lang <mlang at delysid.org> wrote:
>
>> Siju Samuel <sijusamueltech at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > I have got a Freedom Scientific Focus 14 ( which has only USB ) and
>> trying
>> > to connect to it with BralApi (using  a   client program )  in Windows 7
>>
>> First of all, the Focus 14 actually has Bluetooth and USB.
>>
>> > 1. For initial testing I used  freecat\brltty-win-4.4-1-libusb-1.0
>> binary.
>>
>> Secondly, 4.4 did not support the Focus 14.  You will have to use 4.5 to
>> get it working.
>>
>> --
>> CYa,
>>   ⡍⠁⠗⠊⠕
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