Building on Windows?

[IamYish]

is there somewhere i can find instructions on building this in windows, i followed the instruction in the code download to install Python 2.7, libusb (win32)<--got it recognizing the MPC4000 and have a driver installed on win10, installed the pygtk all in one and msys to build but i am running into pip and setuptools issues it seems. i also have an XP Virtual Machine i could work on as well.

One other thing i thought about was it being possible to simply create a better usb driver to use with the original AKSYS on modern machines(the dreamer iam)

[IamYish]

Update: managed to get pip and setuptools going and started to follow the provided install instructions again getting a long list of usb.h and usbspec.h errors:

example1: C:/msys64/mingw64/x86_64-w64-mingw32/include/usbspec.h:244:3: error: unknown type name 'UCHAR'
244 | UCHAR bDescriptorType;

example2: C:/msys64/mingw64/x86_64-w64-mingw32/include/usb.h:511:3: error: unknown type name 'ULONG'
511 | ULONG ErrorCount;
| ^~~~~

[watzo]

Thanks for trying this on Windows! The instructions that are there need to be updated for Windows 10. I'll try it in one of the coming days and produce binaries so you don't need to compile the sources yourself. https://github.com/watzo/aksy/blob/master/BUILDING.md

A USB driver approach could work, but drivers are complex (and require native code as well), and is not cross-platform.

What is/was your main use case for AKSYS?