cmacoshidapi

Issue with building HIDAPI on mac


I'm trying to use the HIDAPI lib to aid in building some hid drivers for mac. Following the readme I'm told to go into the mac directory and run the make command. This unfortunately does not do much and I don't see in the readme any of the commands that I need to run along with the make.

I'm not interested in using the TestGUI right now, so if I understand the documentation correctly I should not need to install the fox-toolkit and run the make command with it.

Anyone know if there is a step here that I am missing?


Solution

  • I understand the question is 3 years old, but today I ran into the same misunderstanding of the included readme file.

    The solution to build the library on mac is to run (in the mac folder, using Terminal) the following:

    make -f Makefile-manual

    This will build the lib and you can then test the results by running the test program included:

    ./hidtest

    The results should be similar to:

    Device Found
      type: 05ac 025a
      path: IOService:/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0@0/AppleACPIPCI/XHC1@14/XHC1@14000000/HS05@14400000/Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad@14400000/Touchpad@1/AppleUSBMultitouchDriver@14400000,1
      serial_number: 
      Manufacturer: Apple Inc.
      Product:      Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
      Release:      224
      Interface:    -1
    
    Device Found
      type: 05ac 030d
      path: IOService:/IOResources/IOBluetoothHCIController/AppleBroadcomBluetoothHostController/IOBluetoothDevice/IOBluetoothL2CAPChannel/BNBMouseDevice
      serial_number: **-**-**-**-**-**
      Manufacturer: Apple
      Release:      306
      Interface:    -1
    
    ...