I'd like to just use this downloaded pre-built binary, but no luck. I'm giving up on this path for now.
This is part of FTDI LibMPSSE DLL downloaded from
FTDI
on Mon, Jan 9, 2023.
I wrote this README and the .gitignore. Everything else is from
FTDI.
For compiling on MinGW, I had to:
#include <Windows.h> // defines stuff like PVOID
#include "ftd2xx.h"But I still get linker errors. I need to build the libMPSSE
binary myself. Linker complains the 32-bit .dll is an
incompatible type.
The FTDI link above includes two folders I ignore in the
.gitignore:
samples/lib/windows/visualstudio/
I build my projects for Windows with MinGW and for Linux, so I keep this repo small by excluding all the other stuff.
I created this for personal use so I can build my projects that depend on this library. I keep this repo public so that my project collaborators have access.
My projects add this repo as a git
submodule. This lets me
get the FTDI dependencies with a simple git submodule update --init instead of manually downloading from the FTDI website
each time I clone my project repo.
The pre-compiled libraries are in the lib folder:
- dynamic library:
.so(Linux) and.dll(Windows) - static library:
.a(Linux and Windows)
See this YouTube video about static and dynamic linking.
I would like to keep life simple and static link the library. The libMPSSE.a is only 44KB on Windows and 40KB on Linux:
$ du -sh lib/windows/mingw/i386/libMPSSE.a
44K lib/windows/mingw/i386/libMPSSE.a
$ du -sh lib/linux/i386/libMPSSE.a
40K lib/linux/i386/libMPSSE.a
But I don't know how to static link just this library and dynamic link other libraries.
Whether static or dynamic, these are the Windows linker flags:
-Llib/windows/mingw/i386 -lMPSSE
Unfortunately, this i386 pre-compiled binary doesn't work on
64-bit Windows. The linker tried both the .a and .dll and
rejected them both as incompatible types.