SANE on Cygwin/Win32 Prerequisites ============= To be able to compile sane-backends, you need to have Cygwin installed, with at least the following package(s): - gcc You can get Cygwin at http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/ The scanner must be detected by Windows and not be disabled. Check with the hardware manager. Scanning ======== If you have more than one scanner, you should do the following: - run sane-find-scanner to get the device name of the scanner. The name is something like h0b0t6l0, meaning hba 0, bus 0, scsi id 6 and lun 0. - edit the config file for the backend (/usr/local/etc/sane.d/xxxx.conf) and add the scanner device name on an empty line. Run "scanimage > out.pnm" to get a scan. xscanimage and XSane also work. xscanimage compiles and runs out of the box. XSane 0.92 needs a couple build fixes. Limitations =========== The current annoying limitations are: - Only SCSI scanners will work. No USB/FireWire/Parallel. - Tested on Windows 2000 only. Should work on Windows NT/XP too; may or may not work on Windows 95/98/ME. Note: there is a Cygwin libusb port (http://sourceforge.net/projects/libusb-win32) so USB scanners might work too. 2003/10/23 Frank Zago.