hidapi-tcl

hidapi port to tcl

Linux

1. Install hidapi first
2. git clone git://github.com/signal11/hidapi.git
3. sudo apt-get install libudev-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev libfox-1.6-dev
4. sudo apt-get install autotools-dev autoconf automake libtool
5. ./bootstrap 6 ./configure --enable-testgui --prefix=/usr
6. make
7. sudo make install
8. sudo apt-get install tcl
9. sudo apt-get install tcl-dev
10. sudo apt-get install swig
11. sudo ./build

If you hit a problem to load hidapi_libusb.so.0 export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH libhidapi_libusb.so.0 should be installed in /usr/local.lib or sudo nano /etc/ld.so.conf.d/.conf and add /usr/local/lib

13. Run tclsh hidtest.tcl

14. Consider adding /etc/udev/rules.d/10-hftlite.rules KERNEL="hidraw",SUBSYSTEM="hidraw", MODE="666", GROUP="plugdev"

Windows

hidapi_tcl works with 32-bit version of TCL only. Need 32-bit version of tclXX.lib and hidapi.lib to compile with (active state TCL) to build type: tclsh build