2010-12-04

Where does Windows device enumeration actually begin?

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That's in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum . i.e., the PCI\ USB\ HID\ branches of a Device Instance ID path all origin...
2010-12-02

That darn "libtoolize: AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4]) conflicts with ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS=-I m4" error

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Is caused by using CRLFs in Makefile.am. "m4<CR>" != "m4" and thus the libtoolize script will produce an error. ...
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2010-08-31

Finally *REAL* eSATA

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A.k.a. eSATAp . What kind of moronic committee, who's mysteriously silent on eSATA p (when others have to step in and fix failures b...
2010-08-13

Schematics for a PIC 18F2550 based USB demo board

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Click on the image above for the PDF schematic for a Microchip PIC 18F2550 based USB demo board, with a TTL serial port (also in .ai forma...
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2010-07-14

Installing MinGW-w32 on a Windows system

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Edit: As of 2011, the information below should only apply if for whatever reason, you cannot use <code>mingw-get</code> for your...
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2010-07-11

Compiling MinGW-w64 with multilib on Linux

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In this post, I'll describe how to manually get a version of MinGW-w64 that (should) supports multilib (i.e. -m32 & -m64 , to prod...
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2010-06-14

error LNK2005: strncmp already defined in LIBCMT.lib(strncmp.obj)

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You're trying to mix "Multi-threaded (/MT)" with "Multi-threaded DLL (/MD)". Enough said.
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2010-06-07

Preventing USB devices with different serials to be seen as separate devices

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Once again, I have to give props to Xiaofan : The following is quoted from a USB-IF forum post (the link is now invalid) http://www.usb....
2010-06-03

Showing hidden devices on Windows

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Courtesy of the good people of the libusb-devel mailing list: Set a System (not user) environment variable called: DevMgr_Show_NonPresent_...
2010-05-24

Compiling resource files with Visual Studio Express

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If you pick a Visual Studio project with an MFC GUI app, and try to compile it with Visual Studio Express, you should run into the error: f...
2010-05-14

running XP inside qemu on Windows

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Compiled qemu from source using MinGW32/Msys (hint: add the "target-list=i386-softmmu" so that you only compile the target of inte...
2010-04-20

unresolved external symbol CLSID_FileOpenDialog

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error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol IID_IFileOpenDialog error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol CLSID_FileOpenDialog You're miss...
2010-04-06

Launching the device manager in one click

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A few of us need to have quick access to the device manager always, and while things have improved on Windows 7, we're still not there w...
2010-03-24

Windows UAC and bash's "Bad File Number" error

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Today's problem: trying to run a freshly compiled setup_driver.exe from MSYS/MinGW produces the following: sh: ./setup_driver.exe: Bad ...

Dynamically building headers with automake / autotools

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Say part of your build process is meant to generate a custom include file, eg. resource.h, built from embedded resources and you want to ens...