From 6e9c41a892ed0e0da326e0278b3221ce3f5713b8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?J=C3=B6rg=20Frings-F=C3=BCrst?= Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2014 14:00:40 +0200 Subject: Initial import of sane-backends version 1.0.24-1.2 --- README.windows | 65 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 65 insertions(+) create mode 100644 README.windows (limited to 'README.windows') diff --git a/README.windows b/README.windows new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4715047 --- /dev/null +++ b/README.windows @@ -0,0 +1,65 @@ +SANE on Windows + +Prerequisites +============= + +To be able to compile sane-backends, you need to have either Cygwin +or Mingw compilers and a suitable POSIX compatible environment. + +You can get the Cygwin POSIX compatible environment for Windows +Windows and the Cygwin gcc compiler at http://www.cygwin.com + +You can get the MSYS POSIX compatible environment for Windows and the +MinGW gcc compiler at http://www.mingw.org/wiki/MSYS + +The scanner must be detected by Windows and not be disabled. Check +with the hardware manager. + + +Building +======== + +See general README for build basics. If a given backend fails to +compile, you can use the BACKENDS variable to limit compilation +to backends your interested in: + + ./configure BACKENDS=epson2 + + +Configuring +=========== + +If you have more than one scanner, you should do the following: + + - run sane-find-scanner to get the device name of the scanner. The + name for scsi devices is something like h0b0t6l0, meaning hba 0, bus 0, + scsi id 6 and lun 0. + + - edit the config file for the backend + (/path/to/sane/etc/sane.d/xxxx.conf) and add the scanner device name on + an empty line. + + - Set environment variable SANE_CONFIG_DIR to point to the directory + where the config files are located. + +Run "scanimage > out.pnm" to get a scan. + +xscanimage ans XSane have been reported to compile and run in the past +under Cygwin. + +Notes +===== + +- Only SCSI, USB (with libusb-win32), and network scanners may work. No + FireWire/Parallel. The Cygwin libusb port can be installed + with Cygwin setup.exe or can be compiled manually under cygwin + or mingw using the libusb-win32 port: + http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/libusb-win32/wiki + +- Tested on Windows XP, 7, and using Wine on Linux. + +- Some scanners' backend may not work because of requirement not + supported by Cygwin or MinGW. + + +2011/10/08 -- cgit v1.2.3