Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Hardware_Programming_in_Windows

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Nov 8, 2013, 10:17:53 AM (10 years ago)

Author:

Eric Hazen

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+Low-level programming (i.e. controlling parallel and
+serial ports) can be tricky in Windows (expecially
+for someone used to doing it under Linux).
+Fortunately the 
+[http://www.cygwin.com/ cygwin]
+this easy to do in a unix-similar way.
+
+=== Serial Port Programming ===
+
+Cygwin is 
+[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSIX POSIX]
+-compatible enough that programs which
+access the serial port in a POSIX way
+will work without modification.
+
+Here is an example:
+[http://joule.bu.edu/~hazen/edf_tech/sio_example.zip sio_example.zip]
+library developed for a specific project, but it should give you
+an idea of what is needed for basic port operations.
+
+=== Parallel Port Programming ===
+
+''''Cygwin and PortTalk DLL'''
+
+Use Cygwin and the 
+[http://www.beyondlogic.org/porttalk/porttalk.htm
+porttalk driver]
+from 
+[http://www.beyondlogic.org/ beyondlogic.org]
+
+I have tested version 2.2 of the porttalk driver on my Thinkpad T43 running WinXP
+and it works. 
+
+''''inpout32.dll from Logix4u'''
+
+Another option is the inpout32.dll library from [http://logix4u.net/ logix4u.net]
+This comes with a VB example which works out of the box with Visual Basic Express 2005
+(free).  ''''NOTE:''' the project must be located on a local hard drive, not a network
+share, or you will get a security exception from the .NET framework.
+