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On Windows, the hidapi library uses the standard Microsoft USB HID driver, while libusb requires the installation of a different driver (WinUSB or libusbK). But installing one of the libusb drivers breaks compatibility with other applications using hidapi (Scubapro LogTRAK and Suunto DM5) because only one driver can be active. Switching libdivecomputer to hidapi avoids this problem. On Linux, the hidapi library doesn't seem to offer any advantages over libusb. Most distributions don't even have the hidapi library installed by default. Because there are usually two variants of the hidapi library available on Linux (hidapi-libusb and hidapi-hidraw), the autotools build system won't be able to detect it out-of-the-box, and will automatically fallback to the libusb implementation. On Mac OS X, hidapi is already the default (and also the only option).
Overview ======== Libdivecomputer is a cross-platform and open source library for communication with dive computers from various manufacturers. The official web site is: http://www.libdivecomputer.org/ The sourceforge project page is: http://sourceforge.net/projects/libdivecomputer/ Installation ============ On UNIX-like systems (including Linux, Mac OS X, MinGW), use the autotools based build system. Run the following commands from the top directory (containing this file) to configure, build and install the library and utilities: $ ./configure $ make $ make install If you downloaded the libdivecomputer source code directly from the git source code repository, then you need to create the configure script as the first step: $ autoreconf --install To uninstall libdivecomputer again, run: $ make uninstall Support ======= Please send bug reports, feedback or questions to the mailing list: http://libdivecomputer.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devel or contact me directly: jef@libdivecomputer.org License ======= Libdivecomputer is free software, released under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). You can find a copy of the license in the file COPYING.