[PD] compiling hidio for Windows

[Martin Peach]

On Sun, Feb 2, 2020 at 1:46 PM ffdd cchh <camarafede at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Ok, I did Christof's step c) and copied those dummy functions (and basically commented out anything but a debug_post() inside "hidio_devices()" and "hidio_elements()", and indeed got a binary. But, it's no use.
>
> I try to get some data on why it crashes but it just says 'segmentation fault':
>
> ```
> camarahalac.1 at ACD-NC054624 MINGW64 ~/Desktop
> $ /c/Users/camarahalac.1/Downloads/pd-0.50-2/bin/pd.exe -d 4 -stderr -open /c/Users/camarahalac.1/Downloads/pd-0.50-2/extra/hidio/hidio-help.pd
> Segmentation fault
> ```
>
I tried this using Msys64 but get
hidio_windows.c:37:10: fatal error: ddk/hidsdi.h: No such file or directory
   37 | #include <ddk/hidsdi.h>
I can't find any package for mingw64 that has this file. There is a
hidapi, which uses hidapi.h..
https://github.com/libusb/hidapi
It uses functions like
hid_get_manufacturer_string
instead of
HidD_GetManufacturerString
so it could probably be used fir the windows build.


Martin