Electron-usb NPM

electron-usb

node-usb fork to be used with electron. It's a fork from node-usb which binary are released on github. It's a temporary solution until binary package will be available for node 5.1.x and windows / linux platforms on node-usb. Pleas refer to https://github.com/nonolith/node-usb on how to use these APIs.

Prerequisite

Install the node version used by electron (currently is 5.1.1 for electron 0.36.7). A github valid NODE_PRE_GYP_GITHUB_TOKEN to be set as env variable.

Release & Build

Remember to change the binary host with the correct version (see https://github.com/bchr02/node-pre-gyp-github). After the release, build the binaries for each OS.

Linux build

On Ubuntu 15.10, install:

sudo apt-get install libudev-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev g++-multilib libudev-dev:i386

And then run npm run release-linux (x64) or npm run release-linux-ia32 (ia32) to publish the binary build

Windows build

Use a Windows 7 on x64. Install Visual Studio (2013 is OK on Windows 7) and Python 2.7.x Always specify the VisualStudio version using --msvs_version=xxxx, foor instance npm i --msvs_version=2013

Release using npm run release-win --msvs_version=2013 (x64) or npm run release-win-ia32 --msvs_version=2013 (ia32)