Re: [avrdude-dev] using parallel port programmers with avrdude on windows 7 64 bit and other versions of 64 bit windows

[Joerg Wunsch]

As Florea Bogdan Florin wrote:

> I modified ppiwin.c, rewriting "inb" and "outb" functions to use
> InpOut.  This library, InpOut seems to work both on 32 bit windows
> and on 64 bit windows.  I think it would be useful to include
> support for this library in avrdude, so that it can be used on 64
> bit versions of windows also.

What I'd like to see here is:

. autoconf detection of the necessary header file

. run-time decision between both backend drivers (as opposed to
  the #ifdef solution)

The latter is most important, because Windows users typically use
pre-compiled binaries (rather than compiling their own).  It can
probably be done by switching a set of pointers or such.

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