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Subject: Re: Recommendations for programming HID in FreeBSD 9
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On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 9:45 PM, Engineering <ee@athyriogames.com> wrote:
> I had been researching libusb for a while, but their webpage says it is not
> recommended for HID devices and to use HIDAPI, which does not seem to be on
> BSD.

HIDAPI does work under FreeBSD using libusb (1.0 API) as the
backend.

https://github.com/signal11/hidapi/commit/74440e2dbbba80b4abcc4304ddae9e484231b72d
https://github.com/signal11/hidapi/tree/master/libusb

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Xiaofan