search

ruabmbua / hidapi-rs

Rust bindings for the hidapi C library
MIT License
165 stars 79 forks source link

Create pure rust macos backend (using IOHidManager) #30

Open ruabmbua opened 5 years ago

ruabmbua commented 5 years ago

For this issue help is wanted. I have no experience at all with MacOS, and also no access to apple hardware.

Progress:

jleni commented 5 years ago

I can also help with MacOS. I would suggest switching to circleci and requesting build machines for macos (https://circleci.com/pricing/#faq-section-os-x). Travis mac builds are very slow.

ruabmbua commented 5 years ago

It`s not just for CI. I need something to develop on. I guess setting up macos in a conventional VM should do the trick?

jleni commented 5 years ago

I understood that. I can help with the mac development. My suggestion was to add CI too. Given that you are the owner of the project, I was suggesting you contact circleci so you can get free a OSX builder for this repo.

ruabmbua commented 5 years ago

Okay I got it. Anyway I will start with linux, but it might take some time. I will probably do some work on monday, I got lots of time on a train trip.

Note to myself: Do not forget to bring a hid device :sweat_smile:

micolous commented 9 months ago

I have some macOS bindings that I'm trying to find a place to upstream. I've got another (private) fork of these, where I'm trying to pull out the FIDO-specific bits and make it a little more featured, and have fixed up some bugs.

Relatedly, on recent versions of macOS, hidapi triggers a requirement for "input monitoring" permission, because it it sets IOHIDManagerSetDeviceMatching(NULL), which is scary (or triggers alert fatigue). When an application sets a reasonable matching policy (for non-keyboard/mouse usages, or for a small set of VID/PIDs), then that permission is no longer required.

There's similar "device matching" rules available on Windows which could be made equivalent. UWP apps appear to have a similar permission gate around them, but it's not clear to me how that actually works (eg: does an AppxManifest cause those APIs to return filtered results with no further intervention).

I mention this as it'd mean expanding hidapi-rs' API further to accommodate this.

micolous commented 9 months ago

I now notice there's #131; I've left some notes on there.