[compatibility] undefined reference to `libusb_set_option'

[pur-jus]

Hi all,

I will try to compile the project on Windows 10 with MinGW-w64 without success.
The error is:
C:/stlink/src/sg.c:972: undefined reference to 'libusb_set_option'

My environement is:

• Windows 10
• texane/stlink 1.6.0 => This version requires the libusb-1.0.22.7z (downloaded manually)
• MinGW-w64 i686-8.1.0-posix-dwarf-rt_v6-rev0

Can you help me?

Complete log of the compilation: log.txt

Thank you in advance.

Ju

[Nightwalker-87]

Please try the develop branch instead. I think there were some fixes related to libusb since Release v1.6.0.

[pur-jus]

The mentionned error isn't displayed but the compilation failed.

log_w_develop_latest_commit_a09ef54.txt

[pur-jus]

I want to add a remark.

The last log indicates that I have already libusb in my system.
-- Found Libusb: C:/Windows/System32/libusb-1.0.dll
Sure this version is old.

What is your opinion about this.

[slyshykO]

@purjus74 I think the problem with libusb, that you download manually.
Please remove it. Clear all builds. And try one more time.

[pur-jus]

Just to give more details:
Before to use your project, my system had already a libusb instance.

If I let the batch mingw64-build.bat to download the libusb-1.0.22.7z, the extraction fails:

...
-- Could NOT find Libusb (missing: LIBUSB_INCLUDE_DIR)
-- downloading libusb 1.0.22

7-Zip 19.00 (x64) : Copyright (c) 1999-2018 Igor Pavlov : 2019-02-21

Scanning the drive for archives:
1 file, 2601 bytes (3 KiB)

Extracting archive: C:\stlink-develop\scripts\libusb-1.0.22.7z
ERROR: C:\stlink-develop\scripts\libusb-1.0.22.7z
C:\stlink-develop\scripts\libusb-1.0.22.7z
Open ERROR: Can not open the file as [7z] archive


ERRORS:
Is not archive
...

It seems that the archive is file is corrupted :(

[Nightwalker-87]

@slyshykO: You are right, I did not notice at first that an external libusb library was present.

[pur-jus]

I think this behavior (error during libusb-1.0.22.7z extraction) is due to my compagny protection :(
This f*#! protection creates the wanted archive file but it contains an error html page !!!

But I'm not sure that is a problem to download before the good libusb archive and put it inside the build folder.
My first log illustrates that the mingw64-build.bat finds the archive, extracts it and uses it:

-- libusb archive already in build folder

7-Zip 19.00 (x64) : Copyright (c) 1999-2018 Igor Pavlov : 2019-02-21

Scanning the drive for archives:
1 file, 980895 bytes (958 KiB)

Extracting archive: C:\stlink\scripts\libusb-1.0.22.7z
--
Path = C:\stlink\scripts\libusb-1.0.22.7z
Type = 7z
Physical Size = 980895
Headers Size = 682
Method = LZMA2:23 BCJ
Solid = +
Blocks = 2

Everything is Ok

[Nightwalker-87]

@purjus74: Does your whole compilation succeed now?
@slyshykO: I think we should add a note to the instructions on not to use external libusb packages when installing on windows, as this is not the first issue of its kind.

[slyshykO]

The problem is that windows have many options on how to install libusb, also many compilers with different ABI. That is why we should provide windows builds.

[pur-jus]

I just tried on other machine (without old libusb inside C:\Windows\System32) and it's work (with develop branch, last commit #a09ef54).
Therefore, the problem is due to other libusb version already stored and used by the others projects.

[pur-jus]

Thank you for your support and for your job ;)

[Nightwalker-87]

Reopening this as documentation and related work remains outstanding...