pbatard / libwdi

Windows Driver Installer library for USB devices

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c driver-installation drivers libusb libusb-win32 libusbk usb usb-devices wcid windows winusb

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libwdi: A Windows Driver Installation library for USB devices

Main features

Automated inf creation, using reported USB device name
Automated catalog file creation and signing, using autogenerated certificate
Automated driver files extraction, for x86_32, x86_64 and ARM64 platforms
Automated driver installation, including UAC elevation where necessary
Single library embedding all the required files
Supports Windows platform from Windows 7 to Windows 11

Additional features

Embedding of WinUSB, libusb0.sys or libusbK.sys, USB Serial (CDC) or your own USB drivers (eg. WHQL)
Full locale support with UTF-8 API strings and UTF-16 autogenerated inf files
Resolution of USB Vendor IDs, based on the data maintained by Stephen J. Gowdy at http://www.linux-usb.org/usb.ids
Fully Open Source (LGPL v3), with multiple sample applications
Supports MinGW32, MinGW-w64, Visual Studio

Installation and Compilation

See: https://github.com/pbatard/libwdi/wiki/Install

API usage

See: https://github.com/pbatard/libwdi/wiki/Usage

FAQ

See: https://github.com/pbatard/libwdi/wiki/FAQ