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Phidgets for Linux
- Version 2.1.8, 22 February 2011
+ Version 2.1.8, 3 May 2012
Installation
============
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Requirements
============
-libusb 0.1
+libusb 1.0
This is generally already installed. The libusb dev files may need to
-be installed - this is usually a package called libusb-dev.
+be installed - this is usually a package called libusb-1.0-0-dev. If
+libusb-1.0 is not available, libusb-0.1 will be used as a fallback,
+however, libusb-0.1 is not recommended because of a memory leak which
+will never be fixed.
Some embedded systems / older distros may need to manually set up
the userspace USB device tree. Usually this is handled by udev and
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make LABVIEW_CINTOOLS_PATH=/usr/local/natinst/LabVIEW-2010/cintools
Note: replace 'LabVIEW-2010' with your version
+
+ To use old libusb-0.1
+
+ ./configure --enable-oldlibusb
Usage
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