Introduction
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The gousb package is an attempt at wrapping the libusb library into a Go-like binding.
Supported platforms include:
- linux
- darwin
- openbsd (no hotplug)
Installation on Linux
Dependencies
You must first install libusb-1.0. On
Darwin/OS X only brew install libusb
is tested.
Example: lsusb
The gousb project provides a simple but useful example: lsusb. This binary
will list the USB devices connected to your system and various interesting
tidbits about them, their configurations, endpoints, etc. To install it, run
the following command:
go get -v github.com/giddyinc/gousb/lsusb
gousb
If you installed the lsusb example, both libraries below are already installed.
Installing the primary gousb package is really easy:
go get -v github.com/giddyinc/gousb/usb
There is also a usbid
package that will not be installed by default by this
command, but which provides useful information including the human-readable
vendor and product codes for detected hardware. It's not installed by default
and not linked into the usb
package by default because it adds ~400kb to the
resulting binary. If you want both, they can be installed thus:
go get -v github.com/giddyinc/gousb/usb{,id}
Documentation
The documentation can be viewed via local godoc or via the excellent godoc.org: