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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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Registered: January 2007
Location: USA

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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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