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| MS Win-XP device drivers, U++, and MinGW [message #9159] |
Thu, 19 April 2007 16:31  |
ebojd
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I am stuck with developing an MS Windows device driver for an ancient piece of ISA hardware. My questions to the forum are:
* has anyone developed device drivers usinging MinGW?
* has anyone done this using U++?
* has anyone had luck with using U++ with MSVC 6.0?
One expert opinion is that I have to use MSVC/SDK/DDK to develop the driver. He's probable correct, but I noticed that U++ specifically has setup links for the SDK. The reason I ask about MSVC-6.0 is that quite a number of programmers I know that have to do non-trivial programming on Windows prefer the older compilers over the latest .Net toolkit. Last, if I can use MinGW instead of MSVC* I can distribute the code without ever having to wory about licensing and support issues...
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| Re: MS Win-XP device drivers, U++, and MinGW [message #9171 is a reply to message #9161] |
Thu, 19 April 2007 22:02  |
ebojd
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| luzr wrote on Thu, 19 April 2007 09:49 |
| ebojd wrote on Thu, 19 April 2007 10:31 |
* has anyone had luck with using U++ with MSVC 6.0?
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MSVC 6.0 has way to broken C++ to compile U++ (in fact, it was developed before C++ standard was released).
That said, U++ was initially developed using MSVC 6.0, but since then, language constructs were added/fixed like member templates and it is no more possible to compile with 6.0.
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Thanks. Yep, I've had a couple of projects that seriously broke when C++99 standard was finally implemented.
Maybe someone knows about the MinGW/Win-XP device driver issue 
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| Re: MS Win-XP device drivers, U++, and MinGW [message #9192 is a reply to message #9185] |
Fri, 20 April 2007 14:26 |
ebojd
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No, I am not holding my breath (that would bring a whole new meaning to the "blue screen of death"), and I've been fighting with some install problem with the SDK install giving a fatal error whilst trying to patch a file in the documentation that does not exist... I hate microsoft products...
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