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Libusb

libusb is a library that provides applications with access for controlling data transfer to and from USB devices on Unix and non-Unix systems, without the need for kernel-mode drivers.

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libusb
Initial release2007 (2007)1
Stable release
1.0.302 Edit this on Wikidata / 17 May 2026 (17 May 2026)
Written inC
Type
LicenseLGPL 2.1
Websitelibusb.info
Repositorygithub.com/libusb/libusb.git
The Linux API is composed out of the System Call Interface of the Linux kernel, the GNU C Library, libcgroup,3 libdrm, libalsa and libevdev4 (by freedesktop.org). source ↗

libusb is a library that provides applications with access for controlling data transfer to and from USB devices on Unix and non-Unix systems, without the need for kernel-mode drivers.

Availability

libusb is currently available for Linux, the BSDs, Solaris, OS X, Windows, Android, and Haiku.5 It is written in C.

Amongst other applications, the library is used by SANE, the Linux scanner project, in preference to the kernel scanner module, which is restricted to Linux kernel 2.4.

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