Windows

PulseView on Windows

Status

We intend to fully support all major operating systems in sigrok, including Windows. However, we're not quite there, yet. Various portability issues need to be addressed still. The tables below list the current Windows status of the various hardware drivers.

Supported

Logic analyzer	Windows status
ASIX SIGMA/SIGMA2	Should work fine using libftdi + libusb-0.1-win32 (not runtime-tested yet, though).
ChronoVu LA8	Works fine using libftdi + libusb-0.1-win32.
Demo driver	Works fine.
IKALOGIC ScanaPLUS	Works fine using libftdi + libusb-0.1-win32.
ZEROPLUS Logic Cube LAP-C(16032)	Works fine using libusb-1.0.
ZEROPLUS LAP-16128U	Should works fine using libusb-1.0 (not runtime-tested yet, though).

Work in progress

Logic analyzer	Windows status
ARMFLY Mini-Logic	Should work fine - please test.
Braintechnology USB Interface V2.x	Should work fine - please test.
Braintechnology USB-LPS	Should work fine - please test.
CWAV USBee SX	Should work fine - please test.
Dangerous Prototypes Buspirate	Should work fine - please test.
EE Electronics ESLA100	Should work fine - please test.
IKALOGIC Scanalogic-2	HID-based, we need to use HIDAPI.
Lcsoft Mini Board	Should work fine - please test.
Logic Shrimp	Should work fine - please test.
MCU123 Saleae Logic clone	Should work fine - please test.
MCU123 USBee AX Pro clone	Works fine.
Openbench Logic Sniffer	Serial port portability fixes required (partially implemented, but unfinished).
Robomotic BugLogic 3	Should work fine - please test.
Robomotic MiniLogic	Should work fine - please test.
Saleae Logic	Should work fine - please test.
Link Instruments MSO-19‎	Doesn't compile due to libudev dependency. TODO: Make libudev optional.
Mixed-signal oscilloscope	Windows status
ARMFLY AX-Pro	Should work fine - please test.
EE Electronics ESLA201A	Should work fine - please test.
XZL_Studio AX	Should work fine - please test.
Oscilloscope	Windows status
Fluke ScopeMeter 199B	Should work fine - please test.
Hantek DSO-2090	Should work fine - please test.
Rigol DS1052E	USB connection not supported yet, serial connection partially working.
Rigol DS1102E	USB connection not supported yet, serial connection partially working.
Multimeter	Windows status
All serial port based DMMs	Should work fine - please test.
All uni-t-dmm based DMMs	HID-based, we need to use HIDAPI.
All victor-dmm based DMMs	HID-based, we need to use HIDAPI.
Sound level meter	Windows status
CEM DT-8852	Should work fine - please test.
Colead SL-5868P	Should work fine - please test.
Kecheng KC-330B	Should work fine - please test.
Tondaj SL-814	Should work fine - please test.
Thermometer	Windows status
Lascar Electronics EL-USB-2	Should work fine - please test.
MIC 98581	Should work fine - please test.
MIC 98583	Should work fine - please test.
UNI-T UT325	HID-based, we need to use HIDAPI.
Voltcraft K204	Should work fine - please test.
Hygrometer	Windows status
Lascar Electronics EL-USB-2	Should work fine - please test.
MIC 98583	Should work fine - please test.
Datalogger	Windows status
Lascar Electronics EL-USB-CO	Should work fine - please test.

Self-extracting installers

Work in progress. We don't provide pre-built installers for sigrok-cli and PulseView right now, but will do so in the near future, when a few issues have been sorted out.

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Drivers

In order to use libsigrok (via a sigrok frontend) on Windows, you need to install the proper driver for the respective device. The driver shipped with the vendor software is not going to work in almost all cases.

For installing the drivers you can use the zadig executable from the libwdi project. There are two versions, one for Windows XP (zadig_xp.exe), and another one for all other supported Windows versions (zadig.exe). The sigrok-cli and PulseView installers ship with both zadig executable files for convenience (they're located in the installation directory of the respective application).

Devices where libsigrok uses libftdi (asix-sigma, chronovu-la8, ikalogic-scanaplus) will need the libusb-win32 driver, devices where libsigrok uses libusb-1.0 will need the WinUSB driver (all other USB devices).

Firmware

The Windows installers ship with all firmware files that are either open-source or where we have permission from the vendor to distribute them. Some devices will need other firmware which we cannot redistribute though. See the wiki page for the respective device on how you can extract those firmware files from the vendor's software.

You'll need to copy the extracted files into the firmware subfolder of the respective installation directory of sigrok-cli or Pulseview, e.g. C:\Program Files\sigrok\sigrok-cli\firmware or C:\Program Files\sigrok\PulseView\firmware.

Building from source

See Windows/Building.