Joystick support

Sat Mar 6 20:14:00 GMT 2010

On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 08:32:13PM +0100, Abhijit Nandy wrote:
>Hi,
>I am doing a hardware project that exposes some hardware data as a joystick 
>in Linux at /dev/input/js0
>>I thought I could use Cygwin for testing my programs that use this joystick 
>data but it seems Cygwin does not have the nodes at /dev/js0 and may not be 
>able to read the joystick. Is there any way to get joystick data through 
>this node in Cygwin. I cannot use glut or SDL for joystick input.
>>Also I do not have a joystick to test with so I am using PPJoy which is a 
>parallel port joystick emulator. It convert mouse movements to joystick 
>movement. It provides an API as well through which its data is accessible
>>I was thinking perhaps I could make a character file at 
>C:\cygwin\dev\input\js0 and then direct the data from PPjoy to this file in 
>the format expected by my program. Of course this copying of data has to be 
>done in a separate win32 application that will update this file and so it 
>may lock it. In which case my program running in Cygwin cannot access it.
>>Any ideas on how to do this better ? I need to have some way of getting 
>joystick data into my linux program without using any library.

There is no "device driver" support for joysticks in Cygwin. Unless the
joystick looks like a device which cygwin knows about (like a com port)
there really isn't any way that you can make the DLL recognize it.
cgf
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