btstack/port/windows-winusb-intel

BTstack port for Windows Systems with Intel Wireless 8260/8265 Controllers

Same as port/windows-winusb, but customized for Intel Wireless 8260 and 8265 Controllers. These controller require firmware upload and configuration to work. Firmware and config is downloaded from the Linux firmware repository.

Access to Bluetooth USB Dongle with Zadig

To allow libusb or WinUSB to access an USB Bluetooth dongle, you need to install a special device driver to make it accessible to user space processes.

It works like this:

• Download Zadig
• Start Zadig
• Select Options -> “List all devices”
• Select USB Bluetooth dongle in the big pull down list
• Select WinUSB (libusb) in the right pull pull down list
• Select “Replace Driver”

Toolchain

The port requires a Unix-like toolchain. We successfully used mingw-w64 to compile and run the examples. mingw64-w64 is based on MinGW, which '...provides a complete Open Source programming tool set which is suitable for the development of native MS-Windows applications, and which do not depend on any 3rd-party C-Runtime DLLs.'

We've used the Msys2 package available from the downloads page on Windows 10, 64-bit and use the MSYS2 MinGW 32-bit start menu item to compile 32-bit binaries that run on both 32/64-bit systems.

In the MSYS2 shell, you can install git, python, and, winpty with pacman:

$ pacman -S git
$ pacman -S python
$ pacman -S winpty

Compilation

With mingw64-w64 installed, just go to the port/windows-winusb directory and run make

$ cd btstack/port/windows-winusb
$ make

Note: When compiling with msys2-32 bit and/or the 32-bit toolchain, compilation fails as conio.h seems to be mission. Please use msys2-64 bit with the 64-bit toolchain for now.

Console Output

When running the examples in the MSYS2 shell, the console input (via btstack_stdin_support) doesn't work. It works in the older MSYS and also the regular CMD.exe environment. Another option is to install WinPTY and then start the example via WinPTY like this:

$ winpty ./spp_and_le_counter.exe