/catgen

catgen - inf2cat tool

Primary LanguageCGNU General Public License v3.0GPL-3.0

libwdi: A Windows Driver Installation library for USB devices

First things first

If you just want the catgen binary ready to be run, do

cd catgen
make

That's it. You don't need to compile the whole libwdi.

Rest is the original README.md file.

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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 both 32 and 64 bit platforms
  • Automated driver installation, including UAC elevation where necessary
  • Single library embedding all the required files
  • Supports Windows platform from Windows 7 to Windows 10

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, WDK

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