Re: Compiler bug in the DDK--be aware of it

kalden wrote:
I am new to driver development. Can you actually build drivers with
the visual studio 2005 C compiler, or did you compile that piece of
code just to show the bug in the DDK build environment?

To answer you question, yes, you can.

There will be many people here (some experts) who will tell you not to.
Do as you feel appropriate.

Set the Linker /SUBSYSTEM:NATIVE and make /ENTRY:DriverEntry

If you leave off /WDM and don't initialize pDriverObject->AddDevice
pointer (in DriverEntry) then your driver will be regarded as a
"legacy" non-PNP NT-type driver, loadable as a driver service using
StartService, etc.

There are other things like making sure you are #includ'ing the right
headers and linking in the right .LIBS, but that's the fun part.

I build my driver using VS 2005 IDE with no problems.

-Le Chaud Lapin-

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