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Windows Driver Installer library for USB devices

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libwdi: A Windows Driver Installation library for USB devices

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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