libftd2xx-ffi 0.2.1

Rust FFI bindings to the FTDI D2XX drivers.
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libftd2xx-ffi

Rust FFI bindings to the FTDI D2XX drivers.

This crate is just the C bindings. There is a separate crate, libftd2xx, which provides safe wrappers around the unsafe C bindings.

Usage

Simply add this crate as a dependency in your Cargo.toml. The static library is distributed in this crate with permission from FTDI.

[dependencies]
libftd2xx-ffi = "~0.2.1"

The default feature set will use pre-generated bindings. This is only available for Windows x86_64 and Linux x86_64 platforms.

The bindings can also be generated during compilation using the bindgen feature flag.

[dependencies]
libftd2xx-ffi = { version = "~0.2.1", features = ["bindgen"] }

Bindgen has additional dependencies that must be installed in order to compile successfully, see the bindgen requirements page for more details.

Supported Targets

  • x86_64-pc-windows-msvc
  • x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
  • x86_64-unknown-linux-musl

References

Troubleshooting

Unknown Device on Linux

Remove the VCP FTDI driver.

sudo rmmod ftdi_sio
sudo rmmod usbserial

See FTDI Drivers Installation Guide for Linux for more details.

License

FTDI provides the D2XX driver as a compiled library and a header file. These files can be found within the libftd2xx_src directory.

The code within the libftd2xx_src directory is licensed by FTDI. Please see the Driver License Terms page for their license.

All code outside of the libftd2xx_src directory is MIT licensed.

Maintainers Notes

README Generation

The README file is generated with cargo-readme.

cargo install cargo-readme
cargo readme > README.md

Pre-generated Bindings

The pre-generated bindings are generated by compiling this crate, then copying the bindings.rs file from the build output.

The Windows bindings were run through dos2unix to normalize line endings and make it easier to diff the generated bindings.