libftdi1-1.1 released and Windows binaries

libftdi1-1.1 has been released on 06-Feb-2014

Main highlights
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* Fix FT232H eeprom suspend pulldown setting (Davide Michelizza)
* Fix FT232H eeprom user area size (Davide Michelizza)
* Improved mingw build (Paul Fertser and Michel Zou)
* C++ wrapper: Get/set functions for USB timeouts (Jochen Sprickerhof)
* Partial support for FT230X (Nathael Pajani)
* New API function: ftdi_eeprom_set_strings() (Nathael Pajani)
* Prevent possible segfault in ftdi_eeprom_decode() (Nathael Pajani)
* Save device release number in eeprom (Jarkko Sonninen)
* Fix "self powered" eeprom flag (Jarkko Sonninen)
* Improved python wrapper (Michel Zou)
* Many buildsystem improvements (Michel Zou and Mike Frysinger)
* See the git history for more changes and fixes


Download:
http://www.intra2net.com/en/developer/libftdi/download/libftdi1-1.1.tar.bz2

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Full changelog:
http://developer.intra2net.com/git/?p=libftdi;a=blob;f=ChangeLog;hb=HEAD

I provided the Windows development kit download here. This time I have provided both the MinGW.org based 32bit development kit and MinGW-w64 based 32bit/64bit development kit. libusb-1.0.18 is used as the base for the libftdi1-1.1.

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Source zip archive or tar ball can be downloaded from SourceForge.

Windows binaries (32bit and 64bit, cross build under Linux with MinGW-w64 project's compiler) can be downloaded from Freddie Chopin's website.

You can also use my test build which is native Windows build using 32bit MinGW.org toolchain.

Take note due to GPL licensing reasons, these Windows binaries are linked against libusb-win32 and libftdi and not the proprietary FTDI D2xx library.

TDM64 and MinGW-w64

I was trying to find a good distribution of MinGW-w64 under Windows (32bit and 64bit). I think TDM64 seems to be quite good now.

Website and download: http://tdm-gcc.tdragon.net/

Special features:
1) It runs under 32bit (x86) and 64bit Windows (x64)
2) It is multilib enabled, which means that it can produce both 32bit and 64bit binary. The default is 64bit.
3) It is a native 64bit compiler, at least under Windows x64.
4) Easy to be installed -- it has an installer.

MinGW Win32 installation to build libusb-1.0 Windows Backend

libusb-1.0 Windows backend currently supports Cygwin, MinGW and MinGW-w64, MSVC and WDK as the building tool. Cygwin, MSVC and WDK are more straightforward to install under Windows. But MinGW and MinGW-w64 are less straightforward.

One way to solve this issue is to use cross-compile under Linux. Leading Linux distros have MinGW and even MinGW-w64 packages. And the auto-tools (automake, autoconf, libtool) are normally installed under Linux. For MinGW-w64 build, one think to take note is that you probably need to update the libtool to 2.2.8 and later. Ubuntu 10.04 still ships an older version of libtool which does not recognize 64bit library properly.

Native build with MinGW/MSys from MinGW.org is really not that difficult once you have the base system and auto-tools installed. Pete Batard has a blog entry talking about the setup.
http://pete-tech.blogspot.com/2010/07/installing-mingw-w32-on-windows-system.html

I just checked again and now it seems MinGW people has recognized the problem and come up with a new automatic installer for the MinGW/Msys base system installation. The name is mingw-get. It is currently in alpha but rather usable. I just used it to set up a new MinGW/MSys base system under Windows 7 32bit.

mingw-get can be downloaded from MinGW Sourceforge site.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/

Once you have the base system, you need to install auto-tools for MinGW (not the MSys version). The auto-tools may need some MSys dependency packages as well (eg: perl, crypt, etc). After that, it is quite simple to build libusb-1.0 Windows backend.

As for MinGW-w64 64bit build, it is similar. You can download the 32bit MSys base system and MinGW-w64 64bit Windows binary snapshots from its Sourceforge website.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/files/

Alternatively, you can get 64bit binary from the following website (only for 64bit Windows).
http://www.drangon.org/mingw/

After that, you still need to get 32bit auto-tools installed. I recommend you to use the ones from MinGW.org and not the ones from MinGW-w64 sites as I have encountered problems with them.

If you are more adventurous, you can try the multilib option to build 32bit and 64bit using the same toolchain. Pete has a blog entry for this. I have not tried this and will probably not try this myself.
http://pete-tech.blogspot.com/2010/07/compiling-mingw-w64-with-multilib-on.html

There is an existing package WPG System64 which include multilib based MinGW-w64 and all the tools (and more) to build libusb-1.0 Windows backend. However, we found out that the MinGW-w64 compiler included is a bit outdated that the output is not compatible with the current MinGW-w64 compile. So it is not recommended any more.