The instructions for adding this library to your Visual Studio Code (VSCode) project can be quite skinny. Some people mention "add -lusb" or "add -libusb-1.0" to your tasks.json to make it work; well this may not be specific enough for some.

for reference:

Windows 10, MinGW64 and VSCode.

Try removing both of those commands above and adding the following to your arguments section where I have both mingw 32 and 64 installed on the same machine within my MinGw folder):

            "-LI",
            "<path to MinGW Lib files>\\libusb-1.0.a"

your compiler command looking something like this: gcc -Wall -o ${fileDirname}\${fileBasenameNoExtension}.exe ${file} -LI C:\MinGW\mingw64\lib\libusb-1.0.a

I was able to compile the included examples testlibusb.c, listdevs.c, etc after doing so.