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Make project buildable on macOS
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Signed-off-by: Hieu Tran Dang <dangtranhieu2012@gmail.com>
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dangtranhieu2012 authored and gibsson committed Mar 13, 2017
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Expand Up @@ -49,6 +49,17 @@ project requires libusb to be present at ../../libusb (relative to the msvc)
directory. If you use an alternative location or compile libusb from source
too, you will have to alter the include/library path in the project settings.

### macOS

libusb and pkg-config can be installed via Homebrew.

If imx_usb fails to claim interface, com.apple.driver.usb.IOUSBHostHIDDevice
needs to be unloaded so libusb can claim, run:

```
sudo kextunload -b com.apple.driver.usb.IOUSBHostHIDDevice
```

## Usage
Using USB, your device should be detected automatically using the USB
VID/PID from imx_usb.conf. Using UART, the user has to specify a
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#ifdef __linux__
#include <linux/limits.h>
#endif
#ifdef __APPLE__
#include <sys/syslimits.h>
#endif
#ifdef __FreeBSD__
#include <sys/param.h>
#endif
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Hi, do you know how to make this work on High Sierra?
It seems that sudo kextunload -b com.apple.driver.usb.IOUSBHostHIDDevice does not work.

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Hi, do you know how to make this work on High Sierra?
It seems that sudo kextunload -b com.apple.driver.usb.IOUSBHostHIDDevice does not work.

Sorry, took me a while to realize there is a comment here so a bit late response. Anyway, the idea is to stop whatever is claiming your device to let imx_usb_loader has a chance to use it. On my board, it was com.apple.driver.usb.IOUSBHostHIDDevice but if that doesn't work for you, it's likely some other module is claiming and so you have to unload that one instead, check dmesg to see which one.

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