[PD] compiling hidio for Windows

[Christof Ressi]

You just have to replace it with #include <hidsdi.h>. I also compiled it 
with Msys2.

Christof

On 04.02.2020 23:13, Martin Peach wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
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