title: Installing libusb on windows for use with Qt
body: <p>I'm trying to install libusb (not libusb-win32) on windows 7. I have to link it with Qt 5.0.1.  Here are the problems I'm facing</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>In the INSTALL file in the extracted libusb folder, it tells me to cd to the current folder then run
  <code>
  ./configure
  make
  makeinstall
  </code>
  But I got the error </li>
  </ul>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>'./configure' is not recognized as a valid command.</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>Googling this problem usually gives the solution as installing libusb-win32. However, I want to avoid that, as of now.</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li><p>In the libusb library, there were a few MSVC projects, so I built them. That did generated some .lib files. So I proceeded to link them with my Qt project. It recognizes the libusb.h header file but does not link properly. Here is my .pro file</p>
  
  <pre><code>QT       += core gui widgets
  
  TARGET = Qt_libusb TEMPLATE = app
  
  
  SOURCES += main.cpp\
      qt_libusb.cpp
  
  HEADERS  += qt_libusb.h
  
  FORMS    += qt_libusb.ui
  
  LIBS += -LC:\libusb-1.0.18\Win32\Debug\lib\libusb-1.0
  
  INCLUDEPATH += C:/libusb-1.0.18/libusb DEPENDPATH += C:/libusb-1.0.18/libusb
  </code></pre></li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>My objective is to link the libusb library with Qt. Please tell me if I haven't 'installed' the library correctly or if I am linking it in a wrong way. thanks</p>