Is it possible to use USB ports in software running in wine (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by Elephantpurple7603@sh.itjust.works to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I mean can wine do it in cases like:

access the file on the USB stick
format the key in a special software format
use a USB-connected device

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[-] mrpenguin@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Afaik, no. You can run winecfg and map locations to drive letters, but I dont think this allows any raw access to the disk. There have been some clever workarounds for windows tools using libusb, and letting them run under linux using your native https://github.com/stanson-ch/libusb-wine.

What are you trying to do? Unless you're writing a really esoteric filesystem there is probably a way to do this natively under linux.

[-] vortexal@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't understand what the second one means but I know that wine explorer.exe can see and interact with external storage devices and I've used USB game controllers with software running in Wine, if that answers your question.

[-] Elephantpurple7603@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Yes thank

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