Libusb and how to use its packages in Ubuntu

c++ c ubuntu installation libusb
Amjad picture Amjad · Feb 23, 2013 · Viewed 15.4k times · Source

I have installed libusb by using the following command. I am not sure if it was right or not and the command was

sudo apt-get install libusb-dev

Once I have installed (and I am not sure if it has installed or not because I am a novice user of Ubuntu), I want to know how would I use the library, because I write some sample code which uses <libusb.h>, but when I compile that C++ file using

g++ test_libusb.cpp

that throws the following error,

test_libusb.cpp:2:20: fatal error: libusb.h: No such file or directory compilation terminated.

I am clueless what to do. I can't find any source on the Internet to get to the bottom of this...

I want to know two things here:

  1. How do I add the libusb library in C/C++ so I can use <libusb.h>?
  2. What would some sample code be? Only a few lines to see if libusb is working...

Answer

puk picture puk · Dec 10, 2013

Try including it like so:

#include <libusb-1.0/libusb.h>

and then compile it like so:

g++ main.cpp -o main -lusb-1.0

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