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[Heimdall]

Hi everyone,

For a long while I've been preparing the 0.9.6 release of minpspw SDK, the packaged build of the homebrew SDK plus plenty of dev libraries to use on windows, solaris and linux.

I have lots of new things coming up in this release but there is one that is giving me some trouble: psplinkusb_pc

I've already a test patch:
http://minpspw.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/minpspw/trunk/mingw/patches/psplinkusb-MINPSPW.patch?view=markup&pathrev=149

Where i made pspsh independent of cygwin on windows (so it builds as a native win32 app) and the same for remotejoy pcsdl. However porting the server app turned out to be more complicated with the USB stuff and posix scandir functions.

I would like to ask to the community some help to port it to a native app so we can fix the problem with libusb-win32 on windows vista, 7.

A good start for this would be the use of this project:

http://jjs.at/software/lwbridge.html

Once we manage to get a patch that makes the apps portable lets just merge to the main ps2dev svn reppo so everyone can benefit!!!

[TyRaNiD]

I did have most of the way with a mingw port at one point but I found issues with posix threads making the thing not really work at all for some reason, that could have been libusb/cygwin getting in the way though.

I do now have a version of usbhostfs_pc which can be used directly against winusb thereby removing libusb dependency completely but I would have to be bothered to release it.

[Heimdall]

For remotejoy and pspsh, i've created a compat layer that allows posix sockets and winsock to work together. I've a native pthreads and sdl builds and for remotejoy i output text using win msgbox. I think that i can try to port all network code to this compat layer and merge your usb code later on

[TyRaNiD]

Could be an idea, I could provide the patches for the normal code to add the winusb stuff as well as providing a pre-configured driver pack which will work across all windows versions in theory (though haven't tested it against XP).