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| author | Vadim Mikhailov <mvp@users.noreply.github.com> | 2017-07-28 11:30:29 -0700 |
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| committer | Vadim Mikhailov <mvp@users.noreply.github.com> | 2017-07-28 11:30:29 -0700 |
| commit | 15321d392afac37768ceb8015037e8d1005df03d (patch) | |
| tree | 0de7a0762fac01fb876bea74c4061515c200db19 | |
| parent | d5cf8f882a378d9c6edae09e6e0979e0c5ce6338 (diff) | |
add a note about Windows compatibility
| -rw-r--r-- | README.md | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -56,8 +56,11 @@ Compiling This utility was tested to compile and work on Linux (Ubuntu, Redhat/Fedora/CentOS), FreeBSD and Mac OS X. -It should be possible to compile it for Windows as well - -please report if you succeed in doing that. + +While `uhubctl` compiles on Windows, USB power switching does not work on Windows because `libusb` +is using `winusb.sys` driver, which according to Microsoft does not support +[necessary USB control requests](https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sqlserver/en-US/f680b63f-ca4f-4e52-baa9-9e64f8eee101). +This may be fixed if `libusb` starts supporting different driver on Windows. First, you need to install library libusb-1.0 (version 1.0.12 or later): |