SANE on Windows

The port has been integrated in the CVS tree on september 23rd, 2003. It will be available in SANE release 1.0.13.

THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS

This patch provides a mean to run a SANE backend on a windows machine.

How to use it:

• install cygwin (http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/)
• download sane-backends-1.0.12.tar.gz
• apply the patch
• read README.windows for compile instructions
  
• run "scanimage > out.pnm" to get a scan.

Current status:
- Works on w2k. Should also work on NT4 and XP. May or may not work on windows 95/98/ME.
- no support for anything else than scanimage.
- no support for USB/FireWire/Parallel port scanners. Only SCSI.
- supports shared and static libraries.
- automatic detection of SCSI devices.


TODO:
- port xscanimage (was done, needs to be redone) and adapt XSane.


Patch:
    sane-backends-1.0.12-win32-1.diff.gz

Old version:
    sane-backends-1.0.11-win32-1.diff.gz