[fprint] porting to embedded linux and windows

[Daniel Drake]

Jeff Yang wrote:
> I’m trying to port fprint to a MIPS embedded linux platform which 
> shouldn’t be a problem. I’m going to use Digital Persona fingerprint 
> reader (U.are.U 4000B). I need the user to register from a windows 
> machine and store the fingerprint data into database. The user will go 
> to the embedded linux device and scan his finger, then the device will 
> access database and compare to verify this guy. I should be able to port 
> fprint library to windows too (not 100% sure). The problem is that there 
> is no windows driver provided by fprint. Can I use Digital Persona 
> Official windows driver? Is that possible that Digital Persona Official 
> Driver + ported fprint library can work together?

You can't do anything fprint-related with the DP stuff, but the 
fingerprint scanner drivers are included in libfprint so there is no 
problem there.

The current stable release of libfprint should work fine on windows, 
although I haven't had any success/failure reports. The previous 
project, dpfp, definitely worked on windows. The future libfprint 
releases probably won't work on windows immediately as it requires a new 
libusb which has not yet been ported to windows.

Daniel