Re: Generating a driver without DDK,...

This is not funny it's actually pathetic. First, to ask the question it
obviously means you've done very little driver development ... else you
would know you need to ask your bosses if they are kidding. The situation
you describe is intolerable, and speaks more to the nature of company run by
a bunch of bean counters than a company seriously considering kernel level
development. Frankly, it pops a red flag for me that tells me to be sure to
avoid products from this company.

You're targeting Vista ... you need the WDK. Period. If you can't put the
WDK, and the other tools you need, on the machine you have been given, then
you need another laptop. Period. A new laptop that can and will do Vista
development can be had for $600. The time it will cost you to ATTEMPT to
maintain, let alone develope so much as an automatic *** wiper with the
peice of crap you currently have will far exceed the cost of a new machine.
Basically it's called the cost of doing business, and if they can't afford
the cost, then perhaps they need to find another business.

That's pointed at business development. If you are a student then get rid of
the crap you have on the laptop that is not needed for software development.
Please don't tell me there is no crap on the laptop. Of course there is.
It's over 4 years old. You simply have to set the priorities and say to
yourself, "No, I really don't need the 20 gigs of Beer Bong Blowout from
last years spring break contest."

Or your entire question is posed as a factious attempt to waste the forums
time. In which case I can only posit "Yes Virginia, there really is such a
thing as a stupid question".

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"Kerem Gümrükcü" <kareem114@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:eymZ8cLrIHA.4376@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi,

i have a situation here which is really true. I have a
old laptop, running windows 2000 professional
and there is no space left for the DDK from Microsoft.
I want to write and test some (simple, monolithic)
drivers, targeting 2000/XP/Vista which handle a
special device over USB. So the situation is that
i dont have a lot of space for ddk on my machine
and i am looking for a way to write a driver, compile
it into a native image and all this WITHOUT the
MS DDK. Is there such a way, a minimal package
of compilers, headers, not bigger than 200 MB?
I already have livekd and WinDbg here, but no compiler
so far and no environment. The environment should
be as small as possible and the compiler should
be capable of inline assembly. Is something like this
available somewhere?


I am not kidding, i really have no space left
here on the machine. This may sound funny
but this is really the situation.

Regards

Kerem


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