website VS hidapi

Learn boost (https://www.boost.org/)

You would be hard pressed to outperform the STL these days in a lot of areas (outside of very specific containers tailored to the use case of your application). Use the boost library for the rest 🍻, although most of it ended up in the STL.

Is it a collection of C++ libraries? ;-)

Are you sure the name won't be confused with Boost?

I have a vested interest in using compilation tests for assessing system speed and stability. One evaluation method I've used in the past is to perform a full build of the Boost library for C++. Well I just found one that brought my system to a crawl. I didn't time it to see how long it's taken (so far), but it's at least gone for maybe 45 minutes?

Boost 1.81.0

Just import some more boost libraries to compensate for the added weight!

Looks like it's back.

On the computer, write a program (the "host" or "server") that talks over the raw HID protocol. It is open ended how you do this, but IME both the Python pyhidapi and C hidapi were simple enough to get something started. The trickiest part might be getting the program to run with the permissions to talk the raw HID protocol (at least on Linux, there was some udev rule to set up). Read the documentation for these libraries for details about how to get set up.

now I'm trying to figure out what to do with the next step for building my own host. Am I supposed to put this test file in my qmk code? or run it on my computer as it's own separate program? https://github.com/libusb/hidapi/blob/master/hidtest/test.c

HIDAPI

I did star https://github.com/libusb/hidapi too, as well as this GitHub.

I used ffigen to get the bindings from hidapi.h and cleaned up quite some of the resulting output to make it Dart compatible. Quite some typedef and some minor stuff.

I figured out the problem with JoyconLib! The hidapi.dll file was broken so I replaced it with a new file from https://github.com/libusb/hidapi/releases and not it's working.

https://github.com/libusb/hidapi#prerequisites

Install the HID API, instructions here: https://github.com/libusb/hidapi

Inspired by https://askubuntu.com/questions/699138/logitech-k380-bluetooth-keyboard-make-function-keys-default and https://github.com/libusb/hidapi, it's almost re-implementation of hidapi actually, with dart:ffi calling the syscall directly.