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[libusb] #143: WinUSB backend: Provide new driver for Windows 7

#143: WinUSB backend: Provide new driver for Windows 7
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Reporter: martindjr | Owner:
Type: defect | Status: new
Milestone: | Component: libusb-1.0 Windows backend
Keywords: | Blocked By:
Blocks: |
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The driver files for the Windows backend contain OLD driver files
WdfCoInstaller01009.dll and winusbcoinstaller2.dll.

To be able to install WinUSB under Windows 7 the latest versions of these
files (the first file name has changed to WdfCoInstaller01011.dll) must be
used; otherwise you'll get an error.

The .inf example files must be updated due to the changed file name.

Could someone update the driver file ZIP file and upload it for download?
Thanks.

The files are installed when installing the WDF and the redistributable
files update package (~ 1GiB!!).

Both files are named "redistributable files" by Microsoft.

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#143: WinUSB backend: Provide new driver for Windows 7
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Reporter: martindjr | Owner:
Type: defect | Status: new
Milestone: | Component: libusb-1.0 Windows backend
Resolution: | Keywords:
Blocked By: | Blocks:
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Comment (by martindjr):

Replying to [comment:2 stuge]:
> > The driver files for the Windows backend contain OLD driver files
WdfCoInstaller01009.dll and winusbcoinstaller2.dll.
>
> What driver files do you refer to, exactly?
>

On the page http://libusb.org/wiki/windows_backend there is a link to the
ZIP package [[http://libusb-winusb-
wip.googlecode.com/files/winusb%20driver.zip|WinUSB driver files]] located
on libusb-winusb-wip.googlecode.com.

In fact this ZIP package does not contain the WinUSB driver itself but the
"Installer DLLs" mentioned in my last post and three .inf file examples
that have to be adapted for each device.

The DLL files from the ZIP package are old files that obviously are no
longer compatible with Windows 7. The up-to-date files can be downloaded
at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/hardware/br259104 (24 Megabyte)
however this is an installer package that can only be installed if you
downloaded and installed the driver development package (free download
from Microsoft but ~1 Gigabyte!) before. (However it seems to be possible
to extract the DLL files via 7-zip.)

The files related to WinUSB are only ~5 Megabytes in sum.

I now did the 1GiB + 24MiB downloads so I could modify the ZIP file
however I have no possibility to upload.
>
> > To be able to install WinUSB under Windows 7 the latest versions of
these files (the first file name has changed to WdfCoInstaller01011.dll)
must be used; otherwise you'll get an error.
>
> Where do you get the error, and what exactly *is* the error?
>
When using the files from the ZIP package mentioned above under Windows 7
you'll get an error message when trying to install the driver (assigning
the WinUSB driver to a device). The error message itself gives no
information (simply something like "the driver was not installed
correctly").

The driver does not install; a class device (Storage, HID, ...) will still
be bound to the default driver instead.

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On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 11:00 AM, libusb Trac <[hidden email]> wrote:

#143: WinUSB backend: Provide new driver for Windows 7
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Reporter: martindjr | Owner:
Type: defect | Status: new
Milestone: | Component: libusb-1.0 Windows backend
Resolution: | Keywords:
Blocked By: | Blocks:
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Comment (by timrprobocom):

Windows XP does not ship with WinUSB at all. No version does -- not even
SP3.
Vista ships with WinUSB version 1, and KMDF version 1.5.
Windows 7 ships with WinUSB version 2, and KMDF version 1.9
Windows 8 will ship with WinUSB version 2, and KMDF version 1.11.

The co-installers install the drivers if they are not already present, OR
if the version is too old. If you run WdfCoInstaller01009.dll on Vista
(which contains 1.5), it will install the 1.9 version. If you run
WdfCoInstaller01009.dll (or 01007 or 01005) on Windows 7, it does nothing.

That's the theory anyway. I never had much luck with later versions of the KMDF coinstaller and shipped WHQL'd Vista and Windows 7 WinUSB based drivers with WdfCoInstaller01005.dll (!) I just verified that my drivers install without error on a Windows 7 32bit machine, so the latest KMDF coinstaller dll certainly isn't required.

I'd suggest someone look at setupapi.dev.log, see what the actual error is and go from there.

Orin.

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Orin Eman wrote:
>
> That's the theory anyway. I never had much luck with later versions
> of the KMDF coinstaller and shipped WHQL'd Vista and Windows 7 WinUSB
> based drivers with WdfCoInstaller01005.dll (!)

A lot of people do that, simply because it avoids the need to reboot
Vista for the version upgrade. In that case, if you don't need XP, you
don't need to include the co-installers at all. You can assume that at
least KMDF 1.5 is present.

We will have the same issue all over when Windows 8 ships, because
people will start linking their drivers to KMDF 1.11, and that's going
to require a reboot on Windows 7 and Vista.

> I just verified that my drivers install without error on a Windows 7
> 32bit machine, so the latest KMDF coinstaller dll certainly isn't
> required.

No, it absolutely is not. You ship the coinstaller that you built for.
If that's older than what is installed, the coinstaller is a no-op, and
you link with whatever version is actually installed.

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